starting fresh

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 9 19:07:47 PST 2003


Hi Dave,

> Ok... now it won't boot from the hard disk into single user mode... :P
> 
> I say boot -s in the loader and then ufs:hd0s11 [my setup] and it boots 
> multi-user and I don't have the
> root password. :P

  I think there's a binary mis-match in boot flags between the
new loader and the old syscons kernel.

  The workaround is to set the boot_single variable at the loader
prompt before booting:

OK set boot_single=yes

later,

Peter.



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