From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 14:59:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE6C16A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:59:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4527843D64 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:59:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BEC969A40; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:59:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:59:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Lists Message-Id: <20041006105943.1dc5d6ce.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <41640719.4090108@esoteric.ca> References: <41640719.4090108@esoteric.ca> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emergency, cannot boot 4.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:59:48 -0000 Lists wrote: > Greetings, > > My 4.10 server is halting during the boot process because the > kern.maxfiles entry in /etc/sysctl.conf is corrupted or wrong (though I > have not changed it in some time). What I want to do is simply remove > that entry from the sysctl.conf file, but I cannot even get into the system. > > I have a presentation later today based on some of the work I've done on > that server -- if someone could clue me in on how to best get in to fix > that file, I'd really appreciate it. I've tried the Brazilian LiveCD > ISO, without success -- the keyboard mappings are for Portugeuse, not > English. Can you boot in single user mode? At the countdown during boot, press a key to interrupt the boot, then enter 'boot -s'. Hit enter when it asks you for a shell and do: fsck -p mount -a You should then be able to fix the offending entry. As a side note ... the last version of FreeSBIE I used had a menu to allow you to choose your language at bootup. Perhaps your version is a bit old? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com