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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:41:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Keith Woodman <keith@lightningweb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fixit.flp NOW
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9903221740540.15384-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990322173253.13214A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Keith Woodman wrote:

> HELP. In dire need of a way to boot my system for repair. The
> last I read, the fixit disk process for 3.0 was broken so I couldn't make
> one. Is there a way to get this sytem up and rolling with another fixit
> floppy? Could realy use some advise here. Seems that while preparing to
> update to -stable, and running mergemaster. I messed up the passwd stuff.
> Can't seem to get into the system after a logout. :-( 

  That shouldn't require an emergency boot disk.  You only need an
emergency boot disk if you can't boot.  Just boot single user, and change
the password (or rebuild the password database).

Tom



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