Ah, I understand. Some of the filesystems "mountall" tries to mount are probably on NFS.
So... let's try it another way.
The order of the lines in nfsconf should not matter. This is fortunate, so we can use some very simple shell tricks to add/remove one line at a time. This may look ugly in the nfsconf file, but it should work.
After "hpux -is":
mount -o remount,rw /
cd /etc/rc.config.d
cp nfsconf nfsconf.backup
To remove one line from nfsconf:
grep -v "line you wish to remove" nfsconf >nfsconf.new
mv nfsconf.new nfsconf
To add one line to nfsconf:
echo "line you wish to add" >>nfsconf
After making the changes:
cat nfsconf (to verify that your changes are good)
mount -o remount,ro /
sync
sync
sync
reboot
If you make a mistake:
cp nfsconf.backup nfsconf
and try again.
After you get the system to start up normally, you can use vi to rearrange the lines of /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf in a "nice" way, if you wish.
(By the way, you posted this HP-UX question into a forum section that is reserved for Linux questions. I'll ask the moderators to move it to the proper place... see
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1245248 )
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