From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 12:55: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04E137B718 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Received: from phantom (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f33JpCK74914; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:51:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Message-ID: <012c01c0bc78$49fdc880$0f01a8c0@phantom> Reply-To: "Gerald T. Freymann" From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: "Barry Conley" Cc: References: <3ACA2165.5D693E20@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Getting into the program after installation Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:57:18 -0400 Organization: eagle.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I recently installed FreeBSD version 4.2. After the installation I tried >to boot the system and it's asking me for a login and password. I can >not seem to get past this point. I tried using syslogd Really? Wasn't one of the last steps of the installation a question about setting the root password? Do you remember? Try username=root and whatever password you gave the setup program. Or... When it says booting...waiting 10 seconds or press any key?? How about you press Enter and type: boot -s which will boot you into single user mode, at which time you can set the root password again with: passwd and voila! -Gerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message