On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:59 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 11:32 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > >On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:41 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > > > > > > > This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it > > > won't work. Unless by some weird chance I should reboot first. > > > > > > >This happens, but don't just reboot. > > Peter, are you saying that it's possible my keyboard isn't working because > the console hasn't been used for a very long time? If so, why isn't > rebooting the easiest thing to do?
Sort of. Sometimes, not often, just plugging a ps2 keyboard into a running machine won't work. It's also capable, even more rarely, of damaging the motherboard. [...] > > >No - you ought to be able to su to root still. > > But how? > > %su - > Password: > su: no directory > % I still have the machine on which I moved /root available and here's what happens: -bash-2.05b$ ls / COPYRIGHT dev kernel.GENERIC nonexistent stand bin dist kernel.old proc sys boot etc mnt razor-agent.log tmp cdrom home modules sbin usr compat kernel modules.old service var -bash-2.05b$ su Password: %ls / .cshrc compat kernel.GENERIC proc tmp .profile dev kernel.old razor-agent.log usr COPYRIGHT dist mnt sbin var bin etc modules service boot home modules.old stand cdrom kernel nonexistent sys %pwd /usr/home/peter % One thing that does occur to me: what is your user's shell and, if it isn't bash, do you have bash installed? And have you changed the root shell from csh? I suspect the latter. [...] > >If you can boot onto a FreeBSD CDROM it'd be easy to fix this. Can you? > > I still have the 4.8 mini-iso the system was installed with. But I need the > console to do this right? Any way I can be sure that the ps2 port/mobo > isn't what's really shot? Or does it even matter? The keyboard will almost certainly work after a reboot. If not, you've got other worries with that machine anyway. You can get a shell with root privileges from sysinstall and make your link. Move /sbin back, though. This was a bad thing to relocate. Peter. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
