From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 11 14:28:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C47D14D55 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:28:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA282781290; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:14:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:14:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola Reply-To: Bill Fumerola To: nunnari Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: forgot root password!! In-Reply-To: <19990611172158.A40231@phoenix.cl.msu.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting nunnari (roberto.nunnari@agie.ch): > 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. It's a shame there isn't a FAQ entry at http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/ about this. It's even more of a shame there aren't ample descriptions of what mailing list is appropriate for questions at http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/ Too bad, I guess. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message