I used DaleH and Bruce's instructions to clean off my stuff, and made sure
the machine boots to the main partition again, then tried the instructions
below and hit a wall.
I got to a command prompt by holding CMD-S while booting, but my keyboard
entries didn't register at all. Here are the last few lines before the
prompt:
BSD root: disk0s3, major 14, minor 2
Singleuser boot -- fsck not done
Root device is mounted read-only
If you want to make modifications to files:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mound -uw /
If you wish to boot the system:
exit
:/ root#
...so I'm stuck?!?
On Monday, January 28, 2013 2:36:02 PM UTC-5, PH wrote:
>
>
> > Questions:
> > 1. Can I do this from Disk Utility or do I need other software to
> proceed?
> > 2. What are the steps I need to follow to proceed?
>
> Should you want to prepare the machine for a new user, so s/he has to go
> through the process of adding a user and password, the following process
> may be used (this also works should you forget your own password):
>
> 1) boot the machine into single user mode using CMD-s,
>
> 2) enter the command fsck -fy
>
> 3) enter the command mount -uw /
>
> 4) enter the command rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
>
> 5) enter the command shutdown -h now
>
> The machine will power itself off.
>
> The next time the machine is powered on, OS X will enter the user and
> password setup process, through the usual Willkommen dialog.
>
>
>
>
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