Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:28:04 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> To: Mukarram Syed <muksyed@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD single user? Message-ID: <4867C624.6080208@cwis.biz> In-Reply-To: <74967.75179.qm@web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <74967.75179.qm@web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Mukarram Syed wrote: > Hi BSD Gurus. > > I am in dire need of your help today. > > I purchased an iomega NAS device which runs on FreeBSD. I happened to incorrectly change root password and now I am stuck. I am not a FreeBSD expert to figure this out. > > This device does not have a USB connecter nor a cdrom drive. It only has Keyboard, Video and RS232 connector along with a couple of RJ45's for network access. > Having said that, I have tried the following after doing a lot of researching on the internet: > I could get to to this stage, bootloader stage 2: > > >>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >>> > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader > boot: > > At the boot: prompt I am trying to get into single user mode by typing > boot: /kernel -s > > It does go into single user mode, I think and I get the following display: > > "Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:" > > At this point when I type RETURN or /bin/sh nothing gets echoed to the screen. > I think if I could get to proceed from this point, I could be saved. > > However when I type ? at the boot: prompt, I get to see a number of options: > > . .. dev kernel etc cdrom proc dist bin boot mnt modules root sbin tmp user sys .cshrc > .profile COPYRIGHT model compat u3 lost+found markversion home cgi-bin share1 share2 > share3 share4 ... share 16 > > I none of above options work at the boot: prompt. The only things that work are > /kernel and /boot/loader. > > Any any ideas to get me to type something here at the "single user prompt" > would be helpful or any other suggestions you might have...like be able to use the RS232 to > connect an external CDRom drive or something so I could boot off the cd in rescue mode or any other ideas. > > iomega is not giving me any support since this product is out of warranty and they don't support it any more...not even for a price. > > Appreciate any of the FreeBSD experts helping me out here. > > Mukarram Syed > muksyed@yahoo.com > Mukarram, What does it say in the 2-3 lines above the shell path request? That's important information to help you get past it. Sometimes pressing control-D will skip you past it (after you press enter). Please advise, Ryan
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