Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:46:29 +0100 From: Sebastian Kutsch <Sebastian.Kutsch@web.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot.config problem, can't boot Message-ID: <20040201124629.3dbed624.Sebastian.Kutsch@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20040201110604.GA14872@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com> References: <20040201110604.GA14872@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com>
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Hi, if you have a bootebel CD-Rom installed you can get a live CD from http://www.freesbie.org/ and boot with it. then you can mount your root-FS and edit the boot.config file. Sebastian On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:06:04 +0200 Mike Jackson <mjj@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com> wrote: > Hi, > I was doing some work on my gateway and decided to tighten up the > security a bit... > > In essence, I had "-h" in /boot.config, but I commented it out > (because > I thought that somehow comments would be understood). So, now I have > "#-h" in /boot.config, which by the way I set the immutable flag on > according to one unofficial HOWTO I was reading. BTW, the comment in > the/boot.config was not part of that HOWTO. It was my own lack of > understanding about how that file is parsed during boot. Yes, I feel > stupid, but I'm also wondering why the file can't include a comment. I > think that this a bug. > > And then I rebooted for some other reason. And now, I can't get past > the boot: prompt. The #-h is not understood and I can't override it. > > There are some changes to files which are on that box that I'd like > to > keep, which have been made since the last backup. Is there any way to > recover from this situation, or is it "re-install" time? > > Thanks,
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