On 8/30/05, David W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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