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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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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/

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