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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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