Hi there, I have booted up in single user mode because the option is available at startup but it prompts me with: Enter full pathname of shell or return for /bin/sh
Doesn't matter what I put in or leave it doesn't give me anything to make changes to root password. There are really no commands that I can use after this point. Any suggestions on moving forward to changing or removing the root password. It may sound like a stupid question but and steps would really help. Thank you for all responses. Sam -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 5:04 PM To: Sam Speranini Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password "Sam Speranini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the quick response and I will try booting up in single mode > for the root password issue. > One of our main boxes at boot up comes up with the error message below and > goes no further. It seems like the kernel is missing or got corrupted. The > box ran fine till yesterday morning when we noticed it was at this stage. Is > there anything that can be done to recover. If this machine worked before, then _something_ has occurred to corrupt data on disk. Some possible reasons are breakin, operator error, or hardware failure. If you're not _sure_ this was caused by operator error, then you should be afraid: either your box was compromised or your hard drives are failing. In either of those scenerios, you need to rebuild the box, possibly after replacing hardware. Hopefully you have backups, if not, you may be forking out good money for a data recovery company to extract your data off a damaged hard drive. If it's a breakin, you might be able to boot the system off a live CD (such as FreeSBIE) and get your data off the drive before rebuilding. If it's a hardware failure, you can try the liveCD thing, but it's less likely to work. Good luck. > Press <Ctrl-E> for BMC Setup within 5 sec..... > No /boot/loader > > FreeBSD /i386 boot > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: > No /Kernel > > FreeBSD /i386 boot > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: -- Bill Moran Two by two, hands of blue. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"