From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 7:42:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from escalus.arlington.k12.va.us (escalus.arlington.k12.va.us [158.59.255.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE8437B406 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 07:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (unknown [158.59.253.69]) by escalus.arlington.k12.va.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEC442 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:37:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BD8157F.BDAC880@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:37:03 -0400 From: "A. Lester Burke" Reply-To: leburke@mindspring.com Organization: Arlington Public Schools X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=95questions=40freebsd=2Eorg?= Subject: boot hang Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Question I have a machine that won't boot completely because, it tells me, it can't mount an NFS partition. Problem is it just hangs there, so I can't get into the machine to change anything. The question is : Is there a way to boot up into "safe mode" so that I can at least read the error logs or something. ? slight panic, but Ilm not screaming yet Thanks -- A. Lester Burke Network Analyst Arlington Public Schools, VA V 703-228-6057 E leburke@mindspring.com "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message