RE: Problems booting operating system and with root password
- From: "Sam Speranini" <samsperanini@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 12:50:52 -0400
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:wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 5:04 PM
To: Sam Speranini
Cc: greenwood.andy@xxxxxxxxx; polina_mnouskina@xxxxxxxxx;
freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password
"Sam Speranini" <samsperanini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you for the quick response and I will try booting up in single modeIs
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.
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.
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