From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 13 17:54:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web20001.mail.yahoo.com (web20001.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.225.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BAAE37B410 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20010914005425.65949.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.4.161.217] by web20001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:54:25 PDT Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:54:25 -0700 (PDT) From: nathan mace Subject: Re: help! i ran mergemaster and messed up /etc! part 2! To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbie@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010914004534.63794.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 i've tried and tried the boot -s to boot into single user mode. is a possiblity that i hosed the conf file in etc that controls the boot loader? if so would that allow it to still boot to mutiuser but not single user? just a thought any ideas on what to do since single user mode doesn't work? i even tried booting linux off another drive to be able to mount the partition, but that doesn't work either...what can i do? nathan __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message