From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 20:56:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7F737B401 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAE043F93 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6N3ubYx068337; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:56:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:56:37 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: ????-16 Message-ID: <20030723035636.GA57900@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1367.030723@ssau.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1367.030723@ssau.ru> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:56:41 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 23), ????-16 said: > Dear sirs, please, help me to solve such problem: > > during configuration I had made an error in rc.conf (unterminated > quoted string). After rebooting kernel was loaded successfully > (without remarks), but when reading rc.conf system reports about > error and breaks during mounting root. So I have a read-only file > system without any possibility to correct rc.conf. > Say, whether I must install FreeBSD from the very beginning, or I can > repair rc.conf ? When in single-user mode, run "mount -a", which will remount all your filesystems in /etc/fstab in read/write mode. Then you can edit rc.conf and reboot. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com