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Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Jul 22 20:56:41 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jul 23), ????-16 said:
> Dear sirs, please, help me to solve such problem:
> 
> during configuration I had made an error in rc.conf (unterminated
> quoted string). After rebooting kernel was loaded successfully
> (without remarks), but when reading rc.conf system reports about
> error and breaks during mounting root. So I have a read-only file
> system without any possibility to correct rc.conf.
>  Say, whether I must install FreeBSD from the very beginning, or I can
>  repair rc.conf ?

When in single-user mode, run "mount -a", which will remount all your
filesystems in /etc/fstab in read/write mode.  Then you can edit
rc.conf and reboot.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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