Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:03:12 -0800 From: mystic_mac1@mac.com To: chris@ooc2000.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Syntax error in rc.conf has made my entire filesystem read only!!!!!! Message-ID: <A5CA4526-8E20-11D6-AA68-00306548FDCC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20020703005701.30100.qmail@web21412.mail.yahoo.com>
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Chris,
Yep, not only have I seen this tragic anomoly, but I had to work
through it. This is what I did. When you are asked for the shell, you
are going into what I think to be single user read only mode. The way to
get out of the mode is to mount you fstab like so:
mount -a
Which will mount everything in you fstab, once the fstab has been
mounted then you can edit your rc.conf file and fix it before rebooting.
His Faithful Servant,
Mark
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 04:57 PM, Chris wrote:
> I was making some changes to rc.conf, and I introduced a syntax error
> (I forgot to close quotes on
> my ed0= line, configuring my NIC). It'd be easy to fix, but I can't
> make any changes whatsover to
> any file -- everything I try gets me "Read-Only file system". Also,
> during boot time it makes me
> enter the path to my shell (bash), and I can't ever logout - every
> attempt makes me reenter the
> shell. (I guess rc.conf is getting run out logout time too and it's
> failing in the same place).
>
> Has anyone seen this? What do I do???? I just have to make one tiny
> change to rc.conf and I'm all
> set . . . but how????
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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