Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 13:36:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca (Luc Pelletier) Cc: Jaye_Mathisen_mrcpu@cdsnet.net, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov, erich@lodgenet.com, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: None Message-ID: <199509022036.NAA05042@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <2206471.ensmtp@cmq.qc.ca> from "Luc Pelletier" at Sep 1, 95 09:00:43 pm
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Believe I've heard the following solution for 2.0.5... (hope that's what you're running) if not, just get a 2.0.5 boot floppy, as you won't be installing anything, it doesn't matter.. boot the install disk don't repartion the disk, just mark the found partitions with their correct mountpoints (you only have to get / right) do an istall of a 'custom' installation.. select 'games' or something to install (not bin) (make sure you have NOT got the filesystems marked for newfs) as you proceed into the install. the 'hollographic shell' will appear in window 3 (or is that 4?) move to that window, and zap your password :) (or change /etc/ttys) you may want to mount usr and var as well, but I don't know if that is needed.. remember that the holographic shell is chroot'd to the hard-disk, so you are effectively root on the hard-disk at this point.. (oh yeah, if the install you chose fails, then that's even better, so try an NFS install from somewhere that doesn't exist :) > Hi everybody! > > I'm Luc, the guy far away in Quebec city (Canada), that guy who lost (forgot) > his root password (and feel so stupid since). > > I'm writing to all of you since you've been kind enough to submit solutions to > my problem. Unfortunately, I've not been able to master the beast so far!!! > > Important fact : My console is INSECURE (/etc/ttys). If I type -s at the > boot: prompt, nothing happens (I don't drop into single user mode). In one of > the answers I received so far, one mention that my only option is to > reinstall. This is the last I wanna do! > > I also tried to CTRL-C and CTRL-\ the booting process at different > point (e.g. before the mount, after the mount...) but nothing worked (I only > got core dump). > > Here is the leads (and questions) I'm following (others suggestions are > welcome) : > > Lead #1 : Another one mention to get a hold of a fixit disk. Could I regain > control of my system with a fixit disk? What is a fixit disk? Can I make a > fixit disk? > > Lead #2 : A series of flag are listed just before the boot promt. I have not > found documentation for them. Can anyone tell me about those flags? > > Thank you very very much for all your help -Lpp > > P.S. Forgive my english, french is my mother tongue. > >
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