From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 15:58:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.ibroadcast.net (ns1.ibroadcast.net [216.145.30.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 920EF4BBD for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from darthmaul (darthmaul.ibroadcast.net [208.222.182.66]) by ns1.ibroadcast.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA95430 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:19:13 -0800 (PST) X-Intended-For: Message-ID: <00dc01bf780b$1e2dbab0$42b6ded0@ibroadcast.net> From: "Majid Almassari" To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <38A9B1FD.E6863017@3-cities.com> Subject: Re: Single User mode... Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:19:33 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess my previous post about hosing up my system doing cvsup is essentially ends up with the same problem of not being able to boot to a single user mode. typing boot -s does not work it gives no boot typing "boot -s" does not work. it gives one beep sound. typing 'boot -s' does not work. it gives one beep sound typing -s boots up multi-user mode and it does not take my root or my regular account password. As you can see I'm doing trial and error So I'm stuck now well I probably need to reinstall FreeBSD 3.2 and I got a SCSI CD-ROM can I boot of it? I tried but it did not work I toggled the BIOS to boot of SCSI disks first did not work. OK so I might need a floppy but where do I get mfsroot and the kernel disks. I searched the FTP site to no avail. Any help is appreciated -- Majid Almassari, MSEE, MCP. Systems Administrator iBroadcast, Inc. Phone: (206) 223-5540 Email: majid@ibroadcast.net http://www.ibroadcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Kent Stewart To: FreeBSD Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:07 PM Subject: Re: Single User mode... > > > FreeBSD wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm running a 3.3-Release box and I forgot the root pass, so I want to > > boot in single user mode, but I used to use -s to do it but now I put -s > > in the boot: prompt and dont do nothing... > > > > Can yo give me some Ideas on how to do it with this version ? > > You have to say "boot -s" > > Kent > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message