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

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:32:30PM -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote:

> 
> 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 there
> a way around this. Thanks in advance.

Yes, when you boot single user, it comes up with root mounted read-only
and no other file system mounted.
You need to remount root.
At minimum do:
  mount -u /

Actually, from long habit, when I boot single user,
I do the whole schmear as follows:
  fsck -p
  mount -u /
  mount -a
  swapon -a
and then go on to fix up what I need.

////jerry

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