On 9/4/05, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 4, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Peter wrote:
> 
> >> (wasn't it nice of it to configure itself so that booting in
> >> singleuser
> >> mode wasn't sufficient to fix such things.  Anyone know how to turn
> >> that "feature" off?), I fired of deselect, eventually figured out how
> >
> > Put the shell name as a kernel parameter. e.g. ... init=/bin/bash
> >
> Did that.  /etc claimed to be a read-only filesystem, so I couldn't
> fix anything :-(

Something like:

mount /etc -o remount,rw

should allow /etc (or maybe you need to use / ) to be remounted as read/write.

man 8 mount for more details.

Alex

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