From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 13 11:10:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tepid.osl.fast.no (tepid.osl.fast.no [213.188.9.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602B037B410; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raw.grenland.fast.no.fast.no (fw-oslo.fast.no [213.188.9.129]) by tepid.osl.fast.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA80633; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:09:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Raymond.Wiker@fast.no) From: Raymond Wiker MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15264.63082.279430.863669@raw.grenland.fast.no> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:09:46 +0200 To: nathan mace Cc: Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbie@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! i ran mergemaster and messed up /etc! In-Reply-To: <20010913142650.46001.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com> References: <00d801c13c4c$14e1adc0$0a00a8c0@qnuno> <20010913142650.46001.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nathan mace writes: > > --- Nuno Teixeira > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > You should login in single user mode and then: > > i just tried logging in for single user, it won't boot > single user, i tried the -s flag when it first starts > loading, hit any key to get the boot: prompt and i > type -s and it just goes ahead and boots single user Type "boot -s". Wait for the machine to finish booting. It should ask you about the path to your preferred shell. Then type fsck -p mount -u / mount -a -t ufs At this point, the machine should be running single-user with all local (ufs) filesystems mounted. //Raymond. -- Raymond Wiker Raymond.Wiker@fast.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message