Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:48:33 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:44:55AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:02 -0600, Jamie Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-20 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:44:55AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:02 -0600, Jamie Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the list, but is there any reason you can't just mount the filesystems and use vi as

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-17 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:02 -0600, Jamie Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the list, but is there any reason you can't just mount the filesystems and use vi as you're used to? If you're getting far enough in the boot process to

can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread aklist_061666
Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. How can I edit the file while I'm in that prompt? VI doesn't work...is

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Kyle Mott
mount -a vi /etc/rc.conf Running fsck is your prerogative. -Kyle Mott aklist_061666 wrote: Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:42, aklist_061666 wrote: Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. How can I edit

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Chris Hodgins
Mike Jeays wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:42, aklist_061666 wrote: Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. How

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Jamie Novak
I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the list, but is there any reason you can't just mount the filesystems and use vi as you're used to? If you're getting far enough in the boot process to get an opportunity to interact with a shell, you should just be able to mount -a and