From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 11 14: 4:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fly.lglobus.ru (fly.lglobus.ru [195.34.224.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0C614C2A for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:04:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rover@fly.lglobus.ru) Received: (from rover@localhost) by fly.lglobus.ru (8.9.3/8.9.2) id DAA15910; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:04:38 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from rover) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:04:38 +0400 From: "Oleg V. Volkov" To: nunnari Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forgot root password!! Message-ID: <19990612030438.A12941@fly.lglobus.ru> Reply-To: fs_rover@lglobus.ru References: <375F8E67.B7399D8B@agie.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <375F8E67.B7399D8B@agie.ch>; from nunnari on Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:07:35PM +0200 Organization: -=/ SR 13 /=- Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:07:35PM +0200, nunnari wrote: > Hi there. > Can anybody tell me how I can solve this problem? > I tried to boot using the boot/fixit floppies but it doesn't > work. When I select fixit from the boot menu, it asks for > the fixit floppy but then when trying to read it, it hangs. > I also tried the holo..shell on VT4, but from that shell > I can't even issue ls nor anything else (probably I should > mount a filesystem first???) as it not recognized as a > command. Boot in single user mode. If console is marked as "secure" it won't ask you for password. Then use "passwd". -- Oleg V. Volkov aka Rover E-mail: rover@lglobus.ru E-mail redirector: sr-13@mail.ru (always up) -=/ SR 13 /=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message