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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:22:38 -0500
From:      Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com>
To:        "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Boot Loader Broken?
Message-ID:  <8d23ec860801220622y5680a2bav492a41d15dbb82ca@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 21, 2008 10:08 PM, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/21/08, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> 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
>

Sorry for the double post, I hit Send before I realized I didn't
answer half your questions :-X

I tried doing ctrl+alt+del, and it just reboots into the normal login
prompt for multiuser. I do not get any boot menu (And I'm definitely
not in single user mode already, all demons are running and such),
just an error saying:
-----------------------------------------------------
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@Mercury, Tue Jan 21 14:22:21 EST 2008)
> \
\: unknown command
-
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x29e868 data=0x2db8c+0x23814
syms=[0x4+0x34c10+0x4+0x43ef1]
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for a command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 4 seconds ...
-----------------------------------------------------



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