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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:13:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        kevins@cyberbeach.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Station hung at 'Recovering vi sessions' stage
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960924091204.3145O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199609240055.UAA10565@dude.cyberbeach.net>

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On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Big Bad Root-meister wrote:

> How can I drop to a shell prompt with all my file systems mounted and
> make the change that is needed to the /etc/sysconfig file so that I can
> bring the system back up ? 

Type '-s' at the Boot: prompt; that'll drop you to single user mode.

Then use
mount -u /
mount -a

to get back your filesystems.

> I would appreciate it if somebody could directo some mail at the
> following account to help me get this sorted out. 
> 
> kevins@cyberbeach.net

Consider using a reply-to: header line or aliasing root to your account in
/etc/aliases.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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