Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:49:06 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, questions@freebsd.org, adoteya@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Recovery Of Root Password Message-ID: <15261.6450.953980.709369@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010910154349.B84813@slackerbsd.org> References: <117005422@toto.iv> <15261.5414.216939.805345@guru.mired.org> <20010910154349.B84813@slackerbsd.org>
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Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> types: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:31:50PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> types: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:58:42PM +0000, Agbenya Adotey wrote: > > > > on this box. > > > > I don't know what to do now. > > > > I would appreciate some help from anyone. > > > Boot single-user: > > > > > > boot: /kernel -s > > > [boot messages] > > > [prompt on shell path - press enter] > > > > You missed a step: "# mount -u /" so you can write to the root > > partition. An "fsck -p" may be required before that. > > > > So I did. Ooops. Shouldn't that be a mount -o rw -u / or something or > does it grab from fstab or something? *sigh* It'll grab it from fstab. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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