Need to edit rc.conf, but FS won't allow.

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 22 10:36:19 PDT 2007


Lisandro Grullon escribió:
> Hi all,
> I was playing around with rc.conf under /etc and accidentally didn't quote properly one of my "YES" entries, now the system won't boot. I tried booting into single user and re-editing the file, yet the time I tried saving it it tells me that the root files systm is read only. Is ther a way around this. 
>   
/ is read-only in single user mode. Use "mount -u /" to remount / witht 
the default options in /etc/fstab after booting into single user mode. 
You should be able to edit rc.conf now.

Regards,

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