From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 00:12:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B9E16A4CE for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 00:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail1.cableone.net [24.116.0.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA2643D1F for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 00:12:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dexter@suffusions.net) Received: from dad (unverified [24.119.0.233]) by smail1.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.5d2) with ESMTP id 2381689 for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 00:03:51 -0700 From: "Marcus Kellis" To: Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 01:13:54 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com Subject: Root password and single user problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 07:12:02 -0000 When moving from the University of Idaho dorms, where I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1, back to my dad's place, my installation got all sorts of crazy, between DHCP, hostname, and other problems that were I guess part of my system's configuration. So recently I've been trying to fix them, and get my system at least backed up so that I can try reinstalling it or putting Windows back on my computer, but today I happened to overwrite my root password (and now I don't know what it is), and to top it off, my kernel is now GENERIC instead of my customized one--which solved the problem where my BSD installation would hang at "Counters tick every 10.000msec" or whatever (basically, I needed to disable ACPI.) So booting without ACPI works, but I can't get into root, and booting as single user hangs on "counters tick...", so I can't change my root password, and I don't quite know how to boot as single user AND without ACPI at the same time. Sorry to be so long-winded, but I'm pretty upset. Thanks for your help.