From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 13 0:50:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2757A37B408; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id JAA15208; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:59:38 +0200 Message-ID: <3BA0653E.8000101@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:50:22 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nathan mace Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! i ran mergemaster and messed up /etc! References: <20010913053720.97367.qmail@web20004.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org nathan mace wrote: >i just ran mergemaster after i compiled a new kernel >and did a makeworld, then i rebooted. now when >freebsd boots up, it checks the hardware and stuff >then when it starts the local services it gets hung in >and endless loop concerning getty. > >luckily i made a backup of etc before i started, but >how can i get logged in to install the backup? i >tried single user mode by booting with -s but it just >returns to the boot prompt...what do i do? > Boot off fixit floppies, or, if you got them fixit CD-ROM. mount your partitions and off you go. If you got no boot media at hand, download a fixit floppy image or any recent FreeBSD ISO. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message