Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:19:19 -0500 From: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> To: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot Loader Broken? Message-ID: <8d23ec860801220619l1f7eab02q385c2bd3a83ccb70@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990801211908j6f46d5a5xbbe51128c4ce54eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <8d23ec860801091038i4878b8b1lbfbacbd8a4dbac73@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860801211012j60d3eb39x19e3076f3b608338@mail.gmail.com> <54db43990801211908j6f46d5a5xbbe51128c4ce54eb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 21, 2008 10:08 PM, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/21/08, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > > > Now, I'm even in a bigger hole. My power died this weekend, and I > > guess the / partition has some errors on it, so it is being mounted > > read-only. But I'm unable to get into single user mode. I tried > > "shutdown now" and "init 1" and they both brought me back to the > > multi-user login prompt. And there's no menu to reboot and select > > single user mode from. > > What do you mean by "multi-user login prompt"? I mean it just asks me to login with a username. Like the normal... FreeBSD/i386 (Hostname) (ttyv0) login: ...thing. > > > > Can someone help me either solve the bootloader problem, or just how > > to get into single user mode? > > When you reboot the system (e.g. press ctrl-alt-delete or issued the > "shutdown -r now" command), it should present a boot menu with > numbered choices. What happens if you select the one corresponding to > "boot in single user mode". Or do you never get to the menu? If you > never got that menu, you are almost certainly in single-user mode. > > Is there anything in /boot/loader.conf ? > loader.conf has: "# --- Generated by sysinstall --- hint.acpi.0.disabled=1" I actually ran a diff on the files from the 7.0-RC1 installer iso and on my /boot. I ran the diff on loader.conf, loader.rc, and all the .4th files. No diff output came up (meaning they were obviously the same). I was told to also check my fstab, and nothing odd was in there either.
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