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From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Can't logon after running buildworld.sh (patchkit-0.2.2)
Message-ID: <C551xq.JAn@agora.rain.com>
Date: 8 Apr 93 00:13:01 GMT
References: <1993Apr6.144035.21705@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <1pt82bINNctv@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <9304072254.ae10229@gate.demon.co.uk>
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damian@centrix.demon.co.uk (damian) writes:
>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.
OR the way that the tinyBSD disk tells you to do it:
mount -u /dev/{wd|sd}0a /
>It took me a few hours to suss that out!
>Damian
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