Boot Loader Broken?

[Schiz0]

On Jan 21, 2008 10:08 PM, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/21/08, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > Now, I'm even in a bigger hole. My power died this weekend, and I
> > guess the / partition has some errors on it, so it is being mounted
> > read-only. But I'm unable to get into single user mode. I tried
> > "shutdown now" and "init 1" and they both brought me back to the
> > multi-user login prompt. And there's no menu to reboot and select
> > single user mode from.
>
> What do you mean by "multi-user login prompt"?

I mean it just asks me to login with a username. Like the normal...

FreeBSD/i386 (Hostname) (ttyv0)
login:

...thing.

> >
> > Can someone help me either solve the bootloader problem, or just how
> > to get into single user mode?
>
> When you reboot the system (e.g. press ctrl-alt-delete or issued the
> "shutdown -r now" command), it should present a boot menu with
> numbered choices. What happens if you select the one corresponding to
> "boot in single user mode". Or do you never get to the menu? If you
> never got that menu, you are almost certainly in single-user mode.
>
> Is there anything in /boot/loader.conf ?
>

loader.conf has:
"# --- Generated by sysinstall ---
hint.acpi.0.disabled=1"


I actually ran a diff on the files from the 7.0-RC1 installer iso and
on my /boot. I ran the diff on loader.conf, loader.rc, and all the
.4th files. No diff output came up (meaning they were obviously the
same). I was told to also check my fstab, and nothing odd was in there
either.