Re: Startup problems

From: Alexander Kirillov (nevis2us_at_infoline.su)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 14:15:15 +0400

You have to mount your root fs as rw.
It's ro by default in single user.
man mount
mount -u -w /
> I am new to Freebsd and have changed the rc.conf file but used a ; to
> comment out a line.
> The only problem is I should have used #,
> Now when I restart all I get is an error when it tries to read the rc.conf
> file.
> The error is
> /etc/rc.con: 20:Syntax error ";" unexpected
> Enter full path name of shell RETURN for /bin/sh
>
> When I select enter I cannot rename or edit the rc.conf file.
>
> What do I need to do to edit the file and get the system going again.
>
> Thanks
> Trevor

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