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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:22:42 -0700
From:      "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com>
To:        "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: Help! - I'm Locked Out
Message-ID:  <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0EA@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239014F54B4@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Drew
> Tomlinson
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 7:16 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
> Subject: Help! - I'm Locked Out
>
>
> 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

P.S.  I have entered the proper card parameters in sysinstall.  The only one
I've left as default is the 0x280.  Should I try something different here?


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