Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:48:06 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: harto000@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: System hung Message-ID: <199609101848.SAA23369@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <3235AFAE.36B5@trudi.zdv.uni-mainz.de> (harto000@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de)
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>>>>> "Hartmann" == "O Hartmann" <harto000@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de> writes: Hartmann> I have no chance to break and it seems horrible to me that Hartmann> there is no possibility in entering the system without Hartmann> installing it from new. That would be horrible. Luckily, most Unix systems provide a bootup into a mode called ``single user mode'' and FreeBSD is no exception. At the boot: prompt, type -s then press return. The system will do just the bootup sequence. Then, you may have to enter the root password (if the console is marked as insecure in /etc/ttys). Then, you will get a prompt for a shell, with /bin/sh as the default. You'll then be running a root shell, from which you can check and mount filesystems: fsck -y mount -a and then use your favorite text editor to fix the /etc/exports file. Then, exit the single user shell by typing exit or pressing CTRL+D. The system will then continue the bootup into multiuser mode. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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