From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 29 16:44:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1E45616A467 for ; Mon, 29 May 2006 16:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samsperanini@bellnet.ca) Received: from tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts23.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FFF43D48 for ; Mon, 29 May 2006 16:44:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from samsperanini@bellnet.ca) Received: from speranind94408 ([70.52.203.145]) by tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060529164411.FMXO9224.tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net@speranind94408>; Mon, 29 May 2006 12:44:11 -0400 From: "Sam Speranini" To: "Bill Moran" Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 12:50:52 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20060526170413.58979fdb.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Cc: greenwood.andy@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems booting operating system and with root password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:44:14 -0000 Hi there, I have booted up in single user mode because the option is available at startup but it prompts me with: Enter full pathname of shell or return for /bin/sh Doesn't matter what I put in or leave it doesn't give me anything to make changes to root password. There are really no commands that I can use after this point. Any suggestions on moving forward to changing or removing the root password. It may sound like a stupid question but and steps would really help. Thank you for all responses. Sam -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran@collaborativefusion.com] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 5:04 PM To: Sam Speranini Cc: greenwood.andy@gmail.com; polina_mnouskina@yahoo.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password "Sam Speranini" wrote: > Thank you for the quick response and I will try booting up in single mode > for the root password issue. > One of our main boxes at boot up comes up with the error message below and > goes no further. It seems like the kernel is missing or got corrupted. The > box ran fine till yesterday morning when we noticed it was at this stage. Is > there anything that can be done to recover. If this machine worked before, then _something_ has occurred to corrupt data on disk. Some possible reasons are breakin, operator error, or hardware failure. If you're not _sure_ this was caused by operator error, then you should be afraid: either your box was compromised or your hard drives are failing. In either of those scenerios, you need to rebuild the box, possibly after replacing hardware. Hopefully you have backups, if not, you may be forking out good money for a data recovery company to extract your data off a damaged hard drive. If it's a breakin, you might be able to boot the system off a live CD (such as FreeSBIE) and get your data off the drive before rebuilding. If it's a hardware failure, you can try the liveCD thing, but it's less likely to work. Good luck. > Press for BMC Setup within 5 sec..... > No /boot/loader > > FreeBSD /i386 boot > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: > No /Kernel > > FreeBSD /i386 boot > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: -- Bill Moran Two by two, hands of blue.