From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 00:44:20 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 D3D8416A4CE for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 00:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terpsi.otenet.gr (terpsi.otenet.gr [195.170.0.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBAE43D1F for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 00:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a117.otenet.gr [212.205.215.117]) by terpsi.otenet.gr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4V7i8pf029587; Mon, 31 May 2004 10:44:13 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4V7i676035393; Mon, 31 May 2004 10:44:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i4V7i6I0035392; Mon, 31 May 2004 10:44:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:44:06 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Marcus Kellis Message-ID: <20040531074406.GA35290@gothmog.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 07:44:20 -0000 On 2004-05-31 01:13, Marcus Kellis wrote: > 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. Interrupt the loader at the boot prompt by pressing SPACE instead of ENTER. Then, run "unload" to clean up any modules already loaded. boot: unload Unset "acpi_load" in the loader. boot: unset acpi_load Load the kernel again. boot: load kernel Boot single user. boot: boot -s That should boot without loading ACPI.