From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 21:59: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7140E37B424 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13RSbz-000N4M-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 07:58:03 +0300 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 07:58:03 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: HELP HELP HELP Message-ID: <20000823075803.E84777@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <39A2F280.8F22B4AF@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <39A2F280.8F22B4AF@gmx.de>; from Siegbert Baude on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:37:04PM +0200 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.pico.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 7:55AM up 1 day, 11:33, 3 users, load averages: 0.30, 0.16, 0.10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You have said EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks a million now I am back to life. I must admit that my main problem regarding getting into single user mode was my assumption that '-s' alone would do it. It is good that a few others also haven't known this outright. I was doing a -s instead of explicit 'boot -s' Thank you. Quoting Siegbert Baude : [000823 00:36]:=20 Siegbert Baude>Hello Odhiambo, Siegbert Baude> Siegbert Baude>> But upon reboot I cannot login!!! I CAN'T have the monster= go to single Siegbert Baude>> user mode either What am I gonna do?? Siegbert Baude>> I have a fixit floppy... Siegbert Baude>> Even root CAN'T login!!!!! Siegbert Baude>> None of the accounts can login....wuuii will I have to go = back to Siegbert Baude>> Windowz?? Siegbert Baude> Siegbert Baude>During the boot countdown of ten seconds hit any key. You wi= ll get a prompt, Siegbert Baude>where you type: Siegbert Baude>boot -s Siegbert Baude>This will bring you to single user mode. Siegbert Baude>To help further you must specify more details about what=B4s= going on. Siegbert Baude> Siegbert Baude>Ciao Siegbert Baude>Siegbert Siegbert Baude> Siegbert Baude> Siegbert Baude>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org Siegbert Baude>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the mess= age -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 I think your opinions are reasonable, except for the one about my mental=20 instability. -Psychology Professor, Farifield University=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message