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From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
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Majid Almassari wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
On my system I must type boot -s kernel.
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R Joseph Wright 

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