From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 16:14:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B261B106566B for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F968FC1B for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb24 with SMTP id 24so816620wwb.31 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:14:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=LTJ3QLWw2jO3iHk2RzpG0VOaY7GOmyULNV/RtqnfnnU=; b=od7Piq7Y6f490YeSxaZHZr3cTpZHwA7K7URNPdnFtj540z5ebdWcGuG68pj0OgB1Oy lb/Hsu+khGoiBI8TjuKxBgQz8NzUGOLX1zHsiy80BkW0eNbTnW1lriFNwVMRjOeG5RmV ttzn1wrPncarI5WbYwcctc71r3hRV59x4Y2zw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=wvaot2R2CsJLA0Jx0zBpEdQQrFxKlX+Z6GiividxyM2LSQctVSA2nOxB6ZfEap4cKm iLIr0UneHa/A2UaP3vVZ+yUQ4bMJRbQQ5lSmQqCFVFJI5OJEZTTcw7rwmphjPrBNJIQB mju0Jq7OJP9ccDQ/XuflOOwceOqrKM4vo1N9w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.171.75 with SMTP id q53mr2110298wel.74.1288196056156; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:14:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.20.2 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:14:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101020075045.GA55858@saturn.pcs.ms> References: <20101020075045.GA55858@saturn.pcs.ms> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:14:15 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Martin Schweizer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Single user mode: no shell prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:14:17 -0000 On 20 October 2010 03:50, Martin Schweizer wrote: > Hello > > If I start the server in single user mode I get never a prompt/shell (at the console). After successfully boot in single user mode I see a the last line: > "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a". The only thing I can do is CTRL-ALT-DEL, then the system reboots as usual (with no broken file system). > All works well in multi user mode. I have no other problems with this server. On at least one of my machines the USB devices do not finish probing until after the "Enter the name of your shell or press enter for /bin/sh" prompt, and thus it scrolls off of the screen. Pressing enter does give me a /bin/sh in single-user mode, however. -- --