From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 18: 3: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-4.sjc.telocity.net (mail-4.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBA637B4C5 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:02:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-4.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA14518; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:57:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Otter" To: "Qiang Xu" Cc: Subject: RE: about lab.conf Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:04:42 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3A085F5F.8D430646@surface.ee.uh.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If it's asking you for the /bin/sh location, you might have your / mounted as read-only. if you do a "mount /" it should remount it as read+write, then you should be able to go about fixing it as you were trying to do before. Regards, Otter -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Qiang Xu Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:01 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: about lab.conf Dear Sir/Madam: I met a problem. Since I want to build a lab running on FreeBSD, I change the rc.conf file. I add .etc/lab.conf at the end. But I make some mistake in the lab.conf file, I lose ;; in the case statement. Then when I reboot, system tell me there is mistake in lab.conf and then ask me to run /bin/sh, then there is the # prompt, and no login. So I could not login as root or other users. I try to do the following: 1. rewrite the lab.conf on the other PC, then try to overwrite it, but it tell me the lab.conf is readonly file system 2. I try to run vi to modify the lab.conf on the local PC, but vi doesn't run. What I should do? Thank you. Xu, Qiang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message