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From: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New FreeBSD User Seeks HELP !
Date: 15 Jul 1997 09:50:05 +0200
Organization: Inst f Arbeitsphysiologie
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In article <33cd7274.6911412@news.demon.co.uk>,
Warlord <warlord@bhpscv21.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>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 ?

Boot it single user by putting -s into the boot string:
hd(0)/kernel -s

-- 
Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke
Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257 vormittags