From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 20:36:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A231540C for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:36:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allenc@mindsieve.com) Received: from spamer_death (user-38ld26q.dsl.mindspring.com [209.86.136.218]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA06057; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:35:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000110233539.00820100@mindsieve.com> X-Sender: allenc@mindsieve.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:35:39 -0500 To: R Joseph Wright From: Allen Cleveland Subject: Re: single user mode? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <387A833E.C27B54C@nwlink.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20000110173243.0081e290@mindsieve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:11 PM 1/10/00 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: >Allen Cleveland wrote: >> >> Hi folks- >> >> I just upgraded 3.3-r to 3.4-r via a snapshot that was placed on a cdrom. >> The upgrade seemed to go well, as I didn't get any errors. As it asked at >> the end, I rebooted. Now I see the kernel name has changed to 'Amnesiac' >> and it doesn't like roots passwd. So I tried starting in single user mode >> by rebooting and typing in: boot -s . For some reason it still wants a >> login/passwd. I thought single user mode was login/passwd -less. >> >> It now seems I can't get logged into the box :( . Ideas? > >Do you have rescue floppies? If so, boot from them, then do >"/sbin/mount /dev/name_of_root_device /mnt". Then, "cd /mnt". From >there, you can use the command "passwd" to change root's password. Try >that. If by rescue floppies you mean the images I have in the /floppies directory of the cd I burned, then yes. However, after doing so ( and making a fixit floppy ) 'mount' shows information about the floppy, but gives me 'command not found' otherwise ( ie: with args ). Typing '/sbin/mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt' gives me 'mount: command not found' . I could install fresh from the iso I burned, but I'd rather leave that as a last resort. Any other ideas? -- Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda Hate spam? Try SpamCop: http://spamcop.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message