From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 11 05:30:20 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FEFC3A7E7 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:30:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mtnmickmt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x22c.google.com (mail-it0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64D4211BE for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:30:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mtnmickmt@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id q124so96186842itd.1 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:30:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=EAEF3hySM4C9fSz4SUohdKihvMVQ7xylVBr0xFS24jI=; b=I/Wdbpg+M6uKpczsXpHFhVb7uws8jC+Mp5wiA8lgfEb2ig+92mxEyZ55sxeZmFQXJZ 7SOk2k0p2JOp+kA0jOnS7uQg8TsahAQ9l6FNlDsLKaFA5HhDIo7yCFJt4hQ5XWFO6zXU 3u+XfFmtFXnJJpD2ii0zhB1VWb5ziGAtC9V2aWkf/xNINmYvshrq/51GH8EHyor5iojV xqW0m3lhxT8rDqcgA7L9XWRSA5Oyr6avGlPHwuW8MF7BVwyhy4npIzXnWKbfo6Em30MC GzE/T8q8mS9IgbQs9sqf0VVbvF4OdcEu3V4UgzhIM36elyySXEJHlh81qHStpQRGlkAT ugVg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=EAEF3hySM4C9fSz4SUohdKihvMVQ7xylVBr0xFS24jI=; b=kp0HRLgvpv9hcXGOm5s7oFg8+bQhtiOvgpGNhej8yX2+v/doyxDO1lKtTU9rsS9VO9 GzUNgHBFhZlmh7XJvSWPWk06qn9IwLJuR//vwhrw03E2wW7Q+kydUDPruXn6RJzhM8ME x20ZtM43EgAyHrA8nSjObKAgmX8RPDNBupM/qMRgul31BvdfzweAGrx0t5FZfDGPUKLa h+bfrhOx4s49cJvFOtEf7N7CYUZ48YWCm28KHomZw2YC8X/CbtRq1Zp7PCshbTBLy06U R4j6mICWktYBW8FBYxCIJM3HKcYvQB6lf9OQqWgkpMEI9n8VBExoZsQ80dyonfsOTixD xgKw== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvdbB/nCEzLo5OOaLT/6eRmnltsRKFSgheuSLnN0uFccW986qlAAEDrfIfMo5DOL7EFIBHvqV2VmY+pxbA== X-Received: by 10.157.13.131 with SMTP id 3mr440754ots.243.1478842218675; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:30:18 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.157.15.42 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:30:18 -0800 (PST) From: Mick mtn Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:30:18 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Newbie Question: is there a rescue mode or shell access from loader? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:30:20 -0000 FreeBSD 11.0R p2 on a macbook pro, System was working, added some drivers to loader.conf, now system panics and reboots after 15 seconds. one of the errors I can see relates to module vesa can not register 17 vesa.ko already loaded I can escape too the loader prompt. But do not see how to edit files from the loader prompt. Can anyone help me get to the shell?