Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:43:49 -0400 From: Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, adoteya@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Recovery Of Root Password Message-ID: <20010910154349.B84813@slackerbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <15261.5414.216939.805345@guru.mired.org> References: <117005422@toto.iv> <15261.5414.216939.805345@guru.mired.org>
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--wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:31:50PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> types: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:58:42PM +0000, Agbenya Adotey wrote: > > > on this box. > > > I don't know what to do now. > > > I would appreciate some help from anyone. > > Boot single-user: > >=20 > > boot: /kernel -s > > [boot messages] > > [prompt on shell path - press enter] >=20 > You missed a step: "# mount -u /" so you can write to the root > partition. An "fsck -p" may be required before that. >=20 So I did. Ooops. Shouldn't that be a mount -o rw -u / or something or does it grab from fstab or something? *sigh* --=20 Carl Schmidt Just like the pied piper led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes swaying to the symphony of destruction http://slackerbsd.org/ --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: JdDRD3KmkWlhiy9ezQAf8vIwE9QVOMW9 iQA/AwUBO50X9CwXrqm5p/cQEQLk7QCgqCM5+TMqxKQYHIX+xt5yHNJv5U8An2wa H2rpHEw5J4QC3SKs39CNYTNx =FUbz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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