Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:38:36 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Cc: Gerald Stoller <gsstoller@optonline.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: single user login Message-ID: <20110817083836.GA48555@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <4E4A8813.1050900@bananmonarki.se> References: <2309807.889736.1313457687722.JavaMail.gsstoller@mail.srv.nantny1.cv.net> <4E4A8813.1050900@bananmonarki.se>
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 05:09:07PM +0200, Bernt Hansson typed: > 2011-08-16 03:21, Gerald Stoller skrev: > >I booted up my FreeBSD system and it never presented me with a "Boot: > >" prompt. > >Maybe that is because my system is old (remember I haven't used it for > >years), > >its version # is 4.3 or 4.7 (I have 2 versions on my hard disk). My > >system > >went through a bunch of boot/recovery/initialization steps and then went > >to the > > login: prompt. When I tried to interrupt it, I got to a primitive > >system that > >used an ok prompt, and "help" tells you all (I believe) the commands > >that it > >accepts and can perform. > > Restart the machine and wait for the boot loader menu. > Then choose "boot freebsd in single user mode" I don't recall there was a boot loader menu in FreeBSD 4.x Just interupt boot by pressing a key, giving you the OK prompt. Then boot -s to go to single user mode (if that's what you want) -- Ruben
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