From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 00:26:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA07906 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (ne.mediaone.net [24.128.1.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07896 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sderdau@ne.mediaone.net) Received: from ne.mediaone.net (sderdau.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.122.19]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA27917; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 03:25:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <362846A1.5F8560FB@ne.mediaone.net> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 03:26:25 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mr.Blue" CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I KILLED IT! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Not sure but if your at the console try at the boot: a -s I believe there is a flag to boot into single user mode. Hope this may help Mr.Blue wrote: > > To make a long story short I just changed my password and my root > password... then i lost the note book i wrote them down on.... i realized > this when it asked me for my login... so i hit the switch to boot in > single user mode thinking i could just change the root pass there then it > only mounted my root partition in read only mode... i tryed a boot floppy > but the only CD i have is for 2.2.5 and I'm running 2.2.6. can any one > help! > > -Chris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- When you find out the answer it's always something you thought you knew :-) Answers here http://www.freeBSD.org/search Happily Running! FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Fri Oct 9 19:54:29 EDT 1998 sderdau@SDERDAU.ne.mediaone.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message