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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New FreeBSD User Seeks HELP !
Date: 14 Jul 1997 21:38:18 +0100
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warlord@bhpscv21.demon.co.uk (Warlord) writes:

>I've just downloaded the bare bones of FBSD 2.2 and installed it onto
>a 486DX33 8MB Machine.  I was playing with rc.conf to get my 3c509
>going and seem to have caused it to stop booting at the point it
>initializes loopback "lo0" 'cos I've got "lo0,ep0" in the rc.conf
>file.  Now it won't boot how do I go edit the file to put it right ?


Put it into single user mode by putting in a "-s" at the
boot prompt. You will need to mount the filesystems by hand
( mount -u / ; mount /usr ; mount /var ; mount /tmp ) and
then you should be able to edit the file. Reboot afterwards
to make sure everything gets started OK.

	David.