Single Mode Boot Help

[bluelinenetworks]

Hello all,

I have a FreeBSD in VMWare workstation 6.

I am trying to get into single mode as advised by another forum to load a patch, but failing miserably as I have very little linux experience.

I can get to the boot: prompt, but when I try to do the " boot -s" it simply says NO BOOT

Any thoughts?

Thank you

 

[Beastie]

First of all FreeBSD is not GNU/Linux.

To enter single user mode, either reboot and choose Boot FreeBSD in single user mode from the boot loader menu or execute shutdown(8) without options (other than the time) on a running system.

 

[bluelinenetworks]

@Beastie,

Thanks for the reply.... I don't get a boot loader menu? Is there something to edit to bring this option back?

It was a pre-configured VM.

 

[Beastie]

Could you post the contents of /boot/loader.conf?

 

[Speedy]

What patch are you trying to apply?

 

[bluelinenetworks]

its an application patch for juniper olive

 

[SirDice]

Even though JunOS (Olive) is based on FreeBSD this doesn't mean we know how it works. It's quite a different beast.

http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Olive

 

[bluelinenetworks]

Yeah, I was using that, but the piece about patching for multicast....

2.download the attachment in http://www.netemu.cn/bbs/thread-7417-1-1.html
3.put it into olive's /boot/modules
4.boot Olive with single mode
input <space> than input 'boot -s' at bootloader5.load the patch
input 'kldload syscall' or 'kldload ./syscall.ko' in single mode shell where you put the patch 6.back to multiuser mode
input "Ctrl+D" in shell7.login and active the patch
input 'sysctl dev.em.0.fix_em_multicast=1' after login if you have more network card active them all 'sysctl dev.em.1.fix_em_multicast=1' 'sysctl dev.em.2.fix_em_multicast=1'

requires to boot into single mode and says to do it with " boot -s" but that part isnt working for me. Figured I could get help from you FreeBSD pros

 

[Speedy]

shutdown command will drop you into single user mode from running FreeBSD.

 

[bluelinenetworks]

@Speedy

Thanks, I will give that a shot next time I fire it up.

 

[OPC]

syscall.ko patch

Syscall.ko patch does not appear to be posted at netemu.cn. Google searches are turning up empty. Does anyone have the patch or know where it can be found?