I tried 2 of the suggested solutions, first the one that said when I get
the "#"
prompt I should type in "boot -s" and the second that when I get to the
"ok"
prompt I should type in "boot -s". With the first I got the response
"boot: permission denied", and with the second I go to the the regular
boot
sequence ending in "press enter to go to ..." and going to the regular
login
(although not getting there because a variable [I introduced] is used
but not
set). I'm thinking of getting a boot floppy or CDROM (I'll look to see
if
I already have one) and getting in that way. I remember creating a copy
of ksh that is owned by root for emergency stuff, I'll try to get to
it.
Where is find ? Is it in /bin ?
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:38 AM, Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 05:09:07PM +0200, Bernt Hansson typed:
2011-08-16 03:21, Gerald Stoller skrev:
I booted up my FreeBSD system and it never presented me with a
"Boot:
" prompt.
Maybe that is because my system is old (remember I haven't used it
for
years),
its version # is 4.3 or 4.7 (I have 2 versions on my hard disk).
My
system
went through a bunch of boot/recovery/initialization steps and then
went
to the
login: prompt. When I tried to interrupt it, I got to a
primitive
system that
used an ok prompt, and "help" tells you all (I believe) the
commands
that it
accepts and can perform.
Restart the machine and wait for the boot loader menu.
Then choose "boot freebsd in single user mode"
I don't recall there was a boot loader menu in FreeBSD 4.x
Just interupt boot by pressing a key, giving you the OK prompt. Then
boot -s
to go to single user mode (if that's what you want)
--
Ruben
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