From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 03:08:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80C416A417 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:08:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB99E13C447 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:08:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so2191397rvb.43 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:08:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=xxSqu34tuF1UnhW2vINALcWPoBl32I935jFU5BqGKcU=; b=EdykywT3EeFQOQhii/p10ij9MbWuPTaw84X9w9sHc63tn664YXqQtw7okz7rk1bLIRw02odp5qvVDc/RAFPz9Ha2iNzbCQQyqxRHcqpxLQAzi3Qc8L2hhDqIJyRN+CWzLpnNHhPJJ60YiMaX/8fU3mUrN4YqTMLS5tLwMleYGNE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OSJrUkhRySvJeM3gtJUGkBZ7UT3UraMGd0yrwZHu6857f/8IhnePD5I2P3f4ckdHC5adSUjtZL2riNYRL2RKqD+FAW5IM7fd9//1YbPjy4AvAqMlxSZrJoZ8Qf7ewELn+dXsWPhlYM36LpQO+5Pu+NTv2cPR/nnEyylT0G/B0Zg= Received: by 10.141.115.6 with SMTP id s6mr5004480rvm.4.1200971289199; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:08:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.142.18 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:08:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54db43990801211908j6f46d5a5xbbe51128c4ce54eb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:08:09 -0500 From: "Bob Johnson" To: Schiz0 In-Reply-To: <8d23ec860801211012j60d3eb39x19e3076f3b608338@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8d23ec860801091038i4878b8b1lbfbacbd8a4dbac73@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860801211012j60d3eb39x19e3076f3b608338@mail.gmail.com> Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: Boot Loader Broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:08:11 -0000 On 1/21/08, Schiz0 wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 wrote: [...] > > Now, I'm even in a bigger hole. My power died this weekend, and I > guess the / partition has some errors on it, so it is being mounted > read-only. But I'm unable to get into single user mode. I tried > "shutdown now" and "init 1" and they both brought me back to the > multi-user login prompt. And there's no menu to reboot and select > single user mode from. What do you mean by "multi-user login prompt"? > > Can someone help me either solve the bootloader problem, or just how > to get into single user mode? When you reboot the system (e.g. press ctrl-alt-delete or issued the "shutdown -r now" command), it should present a boot menu with numbered choices. What happens if you select the one corresponding to "boot in single user mode". Or do you never get to the menu? If you never got that menu, you are almost certainly in single-user mode. Is there anything in /boot/loader.conf ? - Bob