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Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!



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



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