<div id="mb_1"><span class="q">On 5/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Rue</b> <<a href="mailto://tomrue@gmail.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tomrue@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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In fact, it doesn't appear to be booting into Single User mode,
which may be the problem. Is there a way to confirm this, or around it?
</blockquote></span><div><br>Did it ask ask you for the shell path? If so and the path is correct you're going to be in single user, s<br>o if subsequent commands don't work as intended, the error would lie someplace else.
<br><br>Also, are all your filesytems mounted or not? Moreover can you start a virtual terminal? <br>I'd bet the answers are no and no, which would mean you are in single user. <br> </div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Any other suggestions on how I can get back in as root?</blockquote></span><div><br>If
you really are not dropping into single user, it might be worth
checking your permissions on /etc/ttys and /etc/rc.conf just to see if
you might have another way in.
<br><br>hth, <br><br>Forest<br>NYNY<br> <br></div></div>
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