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

From: Bryan Donlan (bdonlan_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/31/05

  • Next message: Sean Davis: "Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?" 
    Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:24 -0400
To: "David W. Williams" <dwilliams@law.pace.edu>, Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    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

  • Next message: Sean Davis: "Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?"

    Relevant Pages

    • Current standings: Structures
      ... David N. Williams ... SFIELD: 2 cells ... The semantics of DFIELD: ...
      (comp.lang.forth)
    • Re: Doctors Advice?
      ... Would you like me to offer some posting references and search criteria ... Williams; watch my lips you silly old bastard: ... What perplexes me is that he has created a troll faq where there are 4 ... David, don't you realize that he simply stumble across ...
      (misc.fitness.weights)
    • Re: Receiving error message
      ... On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 13:16, Williams, David wrote: ... I think in subsequent updates this was fixed, at least on one box I ... But I think a recent update renamed the XF86config file and it now uses ...
      (Fedora)
    • Re: complexity of numerical software
      ... David N. Williams wrote: ... They have nothing to do with algorithms to find subsets, ... nonnegative normalized short floating-point numbers x, SQRT returns the correctly rounded value... ...
      (sci.math.symbolic)
    • Re: For the Massechisettianiters
      ... >There is no point to the threat as ... This is the typical Williams' MO, where he tries to bully or threaten ... blackmail if he can't get the better of you. ... Just tell him to fuck off David, he's full of wind and piss, and if he ...
      (misc.fitness.weights)