Booting bit-by-bit (rc.conf broken)

[Kenneth Culver]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote:

> My rc.conf file appears to be broken in some way, and this is preventing
> my system from booting. It boots to a heavily resticted system, with
> only the / file system mounted and the statically linked binaries
> available. Problem is, I can't edit my rc.conf or remove it. Is their
> any way I can either selectivly execute statements in the rc.conf during
> bootup (similar to the old dos method), or a way I can force login, so I
> can remove the damaged rc.conf.

swapon -a
mount -a

vi /etc/rc.conf


Although I doubt this is what's broken. rc.conf doesn't "run" it contains
variables that are used by other scripts to turn services and other things
on or off.

Ken

>
> Thanks
>
> Colin.
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