From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 04:39:15 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 4FDB737B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 04:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0874643F85 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 04:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.8p1/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h6BBdCTQ085274; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:39:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost)h6BBdCNX085271; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:39:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:39:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: ph.schulz@gmx.de In-Reply-To: <26035.1057923094@www66.gmx.net> Message-ID: <20030711133632.V85256-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File-system is read only b/c of "Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string" in rc.conf 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: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:39:15 -0000 On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 ph.schulz@gmx.de wrote: > Hello everyone! > I've got a quick question: > > I've changed my /etc/rc.conf, but unfortunately I made a typo. Now, my > system doesn't boot anymore. I wanted to correct the rc.conf, but the root file > system is read only. Is there any way that I can either edit, rename or even > delete the /etc/rc.conf? > Btw, I can mount all the other file systems and I have full access to them. > > Thank you for your time, > Phil Just to make sure, boot into single user mode by interrupting the boot countdown and entering "boot -s" at the boot loader prompt. Then to make sure: fsck -y mount -a -t ufs vi /etc/rc.conf Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany