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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:1439 comp.unix.bsd:11771 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!demon!centrix.demon.co.uk!damian Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd From: damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) Subject: Re: Can't logon after running buildworld.sh (patchkit-0.2.2) References: <1993Apr6.144035.21705@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <1pt82bINNctv@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Organization: Centrix Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 21:19:56 +0000 Message-ID: <9304072254.ae10229@gate.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 39 In article <1pt82bINNctv@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: >In article <1993Apr6.144035.21705@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes: >> >>Hi, >> Ok, this is the situation : >> > >> 4) Next, I was a bit curious (actually foolish) to try executing >> buildworld.sh, and hell, that lasted for more than 10 hrs on a 486/33 >> machine !! The worst thing yet to come! Having waited long for the >> buildworld.sh, I reboot the system, and then trajedy, I can never login >> as root or as any other users I created!! >> I tried to use back the old kernel (the one extracted from >> kernel-1.2.pccons-fix-1.tar.Z) and it didn't work either. >> >> >> So, in order for me to get an updated version of kernel, is patchkit more >>recommended, or simple pinch a copy of the latest kernel binary from any site >>out there , which is prefered ? >> > >I deleted a bunch of your message. Sorry 'bout that. > >During boot-up (specifically during the fsck), hit Control-c. > >This will interrupt the boot and put you into single user mode as root. Don't forget that the root disk is still read-only at this stage, in addition you have to do:- umount -a mount -a -t nonfs to make it writeable. It took me a few hours to suss that out! Damian