Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!
Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 8/30/05, David W. Williams <dwilliams@law.pace.edu> wrote:
>> I should have mentioned, I'm the:
>>
>>
>> Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy
>>
>> from debian-user
>>
>> I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message:
>>
>> E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override)
>>
>> Is it possible to get vi to override the read-only of the file system so
>> that I can remove the two offending lines of code from bootmisc.sh?
>>
>> Thank you very much for any help you can give.
>>
>
>Did you
>mount -o remount,rw /
>?
>
>PS, please keep the list CC'd, for people who have the same trouble in
>the future
>
>
Yes I did. That's what did the trick on the not being able to write to the file system!
Can anyone suggest a tutorial on writing what I think are called init scripts?
Thanks!
Dave Williams
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