From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 12:27:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9014937B424 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00114; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:27:32 -0700 Message-ID: <39A6C8A4.E5B6C86@urx.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:27:32 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean Tran Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: single user mode References: <4.3.2.20000825120946.00b19038@127.0.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jean Tran wrote: > > Hi, > I run into a problem when trying to follow the instruction from the > handbook. I need to get into the single user mode to change a forgotten > root password. I can get into either the boot2 prompt(boot prompt) or the > multi_user mode(login prompt) when press any key(except ENTER) after the > bootstrap loader. I then tried boot -s or just -s, and none of them will > bring up the single user mode. I am not sure what I did wrong here. Please > advise. Thanx. I personally wait for the "-" to show up and press the space bar. Then, I type /kernel -s. It works for me. You can't exit to multi-user mode because you didn't use the loader, which breaks things like top. I just type "reboot" and I'm back to normal. Kent > > regards, > Jean > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message