/ mounted read-only after error in /etc/rc.conf

[Steve Bertrand]

Pieter Donche wrote:
> I made a typing error when chanign /etc/rc.conf
> (linux_enable=YES")
> when rebooting the system, the boot stops
> /etc/rc.conf: 22: Syntax error: Unterminated quote string
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
> #
> this leaves me with
> /dev/ds0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only)
> 
> since / is read-only I can not edit /etc/rc.conf to correct the error.
> 
> How to solve this?

Try:

# mount -u /

Which will try to re-mount the / partition as read/write.

Steve