I solved this problem by booting into the Fixit mode using the installation Media (in my case the first CD of FreeBSD 6). Once inside the Fixit mode, I mounted the root partition and changed the contents of the file.
Seems pretty easy on hindsight, although I don't knwo if it has broken my software Raid1 setup. Thanks Amitabh On 3/5/06, Amitabh Kant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Please excuse me for my ignorance, as I am fairly new to FreeBSD. I > have a FreeBSD 6.0 running on a test system. I successfully installed > mysql5 server from the ports collection. Now to make it start during > the boot process, I created a file "/etc/rc.local" and entered the > complete path of the mysqld_safe (/usr/bin/mysqld_safe if I am not > wrong) in the same file. > > I later realised that this is not the correct way to start mysql > daemon, but the problem is that I did not make any changes to the > /etc/rc.local file. Now when I reboot the machine, the boot process > simply stops after starting mysqld daemon. It will not go away even > after trying Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Q or Ctrl-Break. I tried sshing into the > machine from another system, but it seems that sshd is not up yet, so > I can't just login and change the /etc/rc.local file. It is pinging > the test machine without problems, so atleast the network interface is > up. How do I go about wither bypassing the commands written in the > "/etc/rc.local" file or editing "/etc/rc.local" file to comment out > the offending mysqld line. > > If it is of any significance, I am running a software Raid1 setup on > my test system. > > Thanks for your help > > Amitabh > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
