Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 19:48:48 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@4evermail.com> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>, "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! - I'm Locked Out Message-ID: <20010929193252.W17717-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <027a01c1488e$bcd7cde0$6401a8c0@equinox>
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Hi, On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: > > Try installing a copy of Windows on the machine, and then installing FreeBSD > over that. While it might take awhile, it should work. -- Jonathan I may be left out in the cold on this one but just how is that going to solve the problem? > > I have been messing with my system and am now apparently locked out. > > It > > all started when I attempted to upgrade my 4.3 system to 4.4 via > > sysinstall. It failed in the middle and from there things have > > just gotten worse. Try single user mode (boot -s), also try a source rebuild (build/installworld), see if that messes up, if they run properly then u should be able to get back in just I doubt ur system would be similar to before (as I think you somehow did the binary install/upgrade incorrrectly but i could be wrong) > > As it stands now, I can't log in from the console (no login prompt) and I > > can't get in remotely as it appears root can't log in remotely. All my > > previous accounts seem to be missing. Yes coz I suspect you have overwritten ur passwd file, like I did a long time ago when I first was playing with sysinstall and binary reinstall/upgrades. > > I don't have anything real important and am prepared to erase everything > and > > start over with a fresh install. I've made the boot floppies for > > 4.4-RELEASE and booted the machine but it doesn't seem to recognize my > > network card for an FTP install. I only get choices for the parallel and > > serial interfaces when configuring the network via sysinstall. Prior to > > this incident, my card was ed0 on interrupt 9 and address D0000-D0800. I > > can retrieve this from the startup: you could try checking/changing the network cards resources are set to that (boot -c at the bootstrap prompt). > > So I have no console access and I can't seem to boot from the floppies and > > perform an FTP install. Burning a CD is out of the question for a few > > weeks. Any ideas on how I can get this installed? try either the single user or boot -c option to check , see if either works. If you dont have a copy of the sources on the drive then ftp install would be your only option I can think of right now. If you confused by this or get stuck just mail me and I will try and help best I can, HTH PsyV nb. you can use multiple flags for boot (eg -cs) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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