Thanks for your response...
I tried to press Enter and then Cntl + D and that didn't help either. Sorry
for the delay, it took a while to type all of this from the screen.
Here are my scenarios:
Scenario 1:
After I power cycle the array, it boots up and comes to this:
F1 FreeBSD
F2 FreeBSD
F3 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 1
Default: F5
I hit Enter and it changes to this:
F1 FreeBSD
F2 FreeBSD
F3 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 2
Default: F1
I hit Enter and space (I think), it drops me down to this:
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader
boot:
At the boot: I type /kernel -s
It goes through the boot process and these are the lines before I hit my road
block:
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
the lines are:
Mounting root from ufs:ad1s1a
Root Mount Failed: 6
Mounting root from ufs:ad1a
Root Mount Failed: 6
Manual root file system
gives me an example
then it drops me down to this prompt:
mount root
I type:
mount root ufs:/dev/ad0a
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0a
WARNING / was not properly dismounted
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
The line Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: seemed to be
rather grayed out. What I mean is that the color is a bit lighter than the
other text above of it.
At this point I can't type anything. It's pretty much frozen.
Scenario 2:
After I power cycle the array, it boots up and comes to this:
F1 FreeBSD
F2 FreeBSD
F3 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 1
Default: F5
I NOT touch anything on the keyboard and it changes to this:
F1 FreeBSD
F2 FreeBSD
F3 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 2
Default: F1
I let it boot up and hit space after a sec or so.
then I get it down to the ok prompt:
ok
I type
ok boot -s
It boots up and here are the lines before I hit my road block:
Waiting for DAG engine to start
RAIDFRAME: configure (RAID level 1): total number of sectors 483200 (235MB)
RAIDFRAME (RAID level 1): use 6 floating recon bufs with no head sep limit
Mounting root form ufs:/dev/raid0c
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
At this point I can't type anything. It's pretty much frozen.
I don't know what to do at this point.
# mukarram
Mukarram Syed
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- Original Message
From: Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mukarram Syed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:28:04 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD single user?
Mukarram Syed wrote:
Hi BSD Gurus.
I am in dire need of your help today.
I purchased an iomega NAS device which runs on FreeBSD. I happened to
incorrectly change root password and now I am stuck. I am not a FreeBSD
expert to figure this out.
This device does not have a USB connecter nor a cdrom drive. It only has
Keyboard, Video and RS232 connector along with a couple of RJ45's for network
access.
Having said that, I have tried the following after doing a lot of
researching on the internet:
I could get to to this stage, bootloader stage 2:
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:
At the boot: prompt I am trying to get into single user mode by typing
boot: /kernel -s
It does go into single user mode, I think and I get the following display:
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
At this point when I type RETURN or /bin/sh nothing gets echoed to the screen.
I think if I could get to proceed from this point, I could be saved.
However when I type ? at the boot: prompt, I get to see a number of options:
. .. dev kernel etc cdrom proc dist bin boot mnt modules root sbin tmp user
sys .cshrc
.profile COPYRIGHT model compat u3 lost+found markversion home cgi-bin share1
share2
share3 share4 ... share 16
I none of above options work at the boot: prompt. The only things that work
are
/kernel and /boot/loader.
Any any ideas to get me to type something here at the single user prompt
would be helpful or any other suggestions you might have...like be able to
use the RS232 to
connect an external CDRom drive or something so I could boot off the cd in
rescue mode or any other ideas.
iomega is not giving me any support since this product is out of warranty and
they don't support it any more...not even for a price.
Appreciate any of the FreeBSD experts helping me out here.
Mukarram Syed
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Mukarram,
What does it say in the 2-3 lines above the shell path request? That's
important information to help you get past it.
Sometimes pressing control-D will skip you past it (after you press enter).
Please advise,
Ryan
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