From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 22 17:36:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D7216A420 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:36:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [81.2.252.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8328A13C47E for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:36:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EABFA49D57; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:36:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id U7qorYqZ9+Aa; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:36:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-5063f539.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.245.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB30BA49D44; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:36:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46CC7402.1060204@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:36:02 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lisandro Grullon References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to edit rc.conf, but FS won't allow. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:36:19 -0000 Lisandro Grullon escribió: > Hi all, > I was playing around with rc.conf under /etc and accidentally didn't quote properly one of my "YES" entries, now the system won't boot. I tried booting into single user and re-editing the file, yet the time I tried saving it it tells me that the root files systm is read only. Is ther a way around this. > / is read-only in single user mode. Use "mount -u /" to remount / witht the default options in /etc/fstab after booting into single user mode. You should be able to edit rc.conf now. Regards, -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org