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From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Q: Help, I have disabled my console login possibilities.
Date: 27 Nov 1993 17:18:34 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2d825a$94s@homea.ensta.fr>
References: <1993Nov27.160339.20961@odin.diku.dk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bsdtest.ensta.fr
Keywords: NetBSD
In article <1993Nov27.160339.20961@odin.diku.dk>, slawaetz@diku.dk (Sten Law{tz) writes:
|> I seem to have shut myself out from my NetBSD 0.9 system.
|> I added the vga entry as the main tty in /etc/ttys file on my
|> NetBSD partition. Unfortunately, this is not reckognized by NetBSD,
|> so I have no means to log onto my system and change it back. I have
|> tried booting BSD from floppy, but this will not allow me to run an
|> editor to change the file, so I'm stuck with a *very safe* system
|> (no-one, not even me, can log on...). Is there a not to hard way
|> to change this? Ie., I could *in principle* just reinstall NetBSD,
|> this would take some time, though...
|>
Boot single-user (type '-s' when it ask you: boot [wd(0,a)][/netbsd][-s][-a]:).
/etc/rc is not executed, init execute /bin/sh instead. Type 'mount -a' to
remount read-write the filesystems, and you can then do what you want.
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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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