From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 14:19:20 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 B95C816A418 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:19:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 720E713C4D1 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:19:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so1353731nzf.13 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:19:19 -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=j0Brtbv0qTMCrg5+EsIRC2TtOHqZfRPUUMmTrhrE/rM=; b=eO2d4Gv/tc7IhJKtZ0IS6LrrRcRYTTe+/A6uSEp/U6IIvFw4+H+KIpJ8NxcA1NIQG5HxqFWgVxH/Dhg0MxKyievG5p2sXsWJz+Zth9Qm0PmYhUtxlhErWXKzjy8F+YJD80AYg4HvxX7eYLt0xbeirP0qOBSQKrWtGkTUUOb3aus= 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=bILrXNl4AsXEHeDrOPJxAVUgl3tXYt0izmJGmwVRJPzV/ODa+6cgm1Z+B0uUTXb60+jbUGa+lomk1VrJvMEgRUdHhtQiy9y3x27dYQFCwOjFuPXU5cx/7YJf6q+aTqNSIIW78TkwZ2FUE6iS80KzI7l3oSk/9yxftkhyvo59lEg= Received: by 10.115.14.1 with SMTP id r1mr5754649wai.31.1201011559140; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:19:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.52.14 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:19:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8d23ec860801220619l1f7eab02q385c2bd3a83ccb70@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:19:19 -0500 From: Schiz0 To: "Bob Johnson" In-Reply-To: <54db43990801211908j6f46d5a5xbbe51128c4ce54eb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8d23ec860801091038i4878b8b1lbfbacbd8a4dbac73@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860801211012j60d3eb39x19e3076f3b608338@mail.gmail.com> <54db43990801211908j6f46d5a5xbbe51128c4ce54eb@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 14:19:20 -0000 On Jan 21, 2008 10:08 PM, Bob Johnson wrote: > 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"? I mean it just asks me to login with a username. Like the normal... FreeBSD/i386 (Hostname) (ttyv0) login: ...thing. > > > > 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 ? > loader.conf has: "# --- Generated by sysinstall --- hint.acpi.0.disabled=1" I actually ran a diff on the files from the 7.0-RC1 installer iso and on my /boot. I ran the diff on loader.conf, loader.rc, and all the .4th files. No diff output came up (meaning they were obviously the same). I was told to also check my fstab, and nothing odd was in there either.