Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:15:55 -0700 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Help! - I'm Locked Out Message-ID: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0E9@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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I have been messing with my system and am now apparently locked out. It all
started when I attempted to upgrade my 4.3 system to 4.4 via sysinstall. It
failed in the middle and from there things have just gotten worse.
As it stands now, I can't log in from the console (no login prompt) and I
can't get in remotely as it appears root can't log in remotely. All my
previous accounts seem to be missing.
I don't have anything real important and am prepared to erase everything and
start over with a fresh install. I've made the boot floppies for
4.4-RELEASE and booted the machine but it doesn't seem to recognize my
network card for an FTP install. I only get choices for the parallel and
serial interfaces when configuring the network via sysinstall. Prior to
this incident, my card was ed0 on interrupt 9 and address D0000-D0800. I
can retrieve this from the startup:
ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::240:5ff:fe66:b255%ed0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x2
ether 00:40:05:66:b2:55
So I have no console access and I can't seem to boot from the floppies and
perform an FTP install. Burning a CD is out of the question for a few
weeks. Any ideas on how I can get this installed?
Thanks,
Drew
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