oops!! now i cant boot

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Jan 21 05:45:00 PST 2004


Rogue Spider <rogue_spider at yahoo.com> writes:

> I was tring to get my ess sound card working
> on freeBSD 5.0, so i edited /boot/default/loader.conf
> it edited in insert mode and i messed up
> ["no"] became [yes"no"] and i saved before i relized
> it and rebooted no it locks up and tells me there is
> a problem and thats it.
> i tried vty4 but do not know the commands
> is there a way to edit the file loader.conf
> using vty4 of something ?please?

Boot a fixit disk, I guess.
I don't think single-user mode will get you out of this one, although
you could try the loader prompt...

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