From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 19:18:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (ekgr-dsl-145.citlink.net [207.173.232.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7971A37B40D for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:18:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.66.11.100]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F7A5EE623 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:18:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Help! - I'm Locked Out Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:15:55 -0700 Message-ID: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0E9@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal 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 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message