From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 22 17:42:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E47D5152E7; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:42:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10PGCR-0005Q5-00; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:41:47 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:41:44 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Keith Woodman Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixit.flp NOW In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message