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> In-Reply-To: <54db43990801211908j6f46d5a5xbbe51128c4ce54eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <8d23ec860801091038i4878b8b1lbfbacbd8a4dbac73@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860801211012j60d3eb39x19e3076f3b608338@mail.gmail.com> <54db43990801211908j6f46d5a5xbbe51128c4ce54eb@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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