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Single User Mode (Score:1)

by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2003.01.27 11:23 (#16420) Homepage Journal

You can usually get ee or vim working by doing
mount -u / mount /usr mount /var

Alternatively, you could have used ed(1). It's not pretty, but not impossible either. It's saved my bacon a number of times...
-Dom

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- Re:Single User Mode (Score:1)
  
  by ethan (3163)
  
  I don't think this was actually single user mode (I wasn't able to find out really). It looked as though booting was incomplete: it tried to dial with the message PPP started as root and that was it then. No login, it simply dropped to a shell.
  
  I am not yet fully grokking FreeBSD, I am afraid. After my succesful compilation of the kernel I had to learn that it no longer asked for the password when logging in as root so I had to re-set the password using /stand/sysinstall. Very weird.
  
  But still, it appears t

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