Disable loader.conf when booting? Can't boot because of it ..

[wizlayer]

On Thursday 31 March 2005 08:36 am, Daniel Johansson wrote:
> Hi, I really need some help here. I'm running a raid0, with
> vinum, and read the errata about adding geom_vinum_load="YES"
> to loader.conf because vinim_start="YES" in rc.conf paniced my
> system when booting. I'm running 5.3-RELEASE and the errata
> mentioned that one too.
>
> So I added gvinum to loader.conf and now I can't boot. All I
> get is a lot of scrolling text that says something about gvinum
> error, can't remember the exact message but it can't boot
> anyway. Tried single mode to delete this line but can't boot
> into single mode either. Tried disable-module geom_vinum in the
> loader but that didn't help either. It loaded the module
> anyway.
>
> So I'm really desperate here .. is there any way to tell my
> system to completly ignore loader.conf when booting so that I
> at least can access the system and edit loader.conf?
>
> Please CC to me if you reply.

I'm not sure if you can disable loader.conf during boot (would be 
a cool thing to know, though).  The only thing I know to do is 
boot from a live filesystem or from the install floppies and 
ttyv2(?) to get a shell.  You can then mount your 
slices/partitions and comment the vinum_start line out.

HTH,

WizLayer