From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 9:54:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ocswd.ocsny.com (ocswd.ocsny.com [204.107.76.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D31014CF7 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcollins@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (petent.ocsny.com [204.107.76.50]) by ocswd.ocsny.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14499; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:50:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <353F2C10.2AFE396A@ocsny.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:54:56 +0100 From: Pete Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: Ilia Chipitsine , zhihuizhang , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to modify an existing user's setting? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try using the boot loader on the floppy and when prompted enter example: wd:(1,a)kernel which boots from a second hard drive it can be tricky you can try pointing to the proper slice i'm not sure but "wd:(0,a)kernel" will boot from referring to hard drive 0 slice a check the docs for proper instructions pete Zhihui Zhang wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > > Did you type _exactly_ the password for toor as you > > previously set up ?! > > I did not set up the password for toor, taking it for granted that it is > setup automatically (using the same password as root). After I delete the > root password and reboot (to single user mode), I can not boot up! It > says: can not find boot.config and boot.help files. On this machine I > have two FreeBSD slices running FreeBSD 2.2.8. > > Similar things happened on another machine. I installed FreeBSD 3.1 > successfully via FTP. Then I install 2.2.8 via CD-ROM. When I try to > boot up from them, it says "can not find file boot.config, can not find > file boot.help". (I use booteasy). I had to reinstall FreeBSD 3.1. I must > have screwed up something when having two FreeBSD slices (possibly with > different version of FreeBSD). But I just have no idea what I did wrong. > > I hope someone can get me a hint. Thanks a lot. > > -Zhihui > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message