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charset="UTF-8" X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated List-Id: Documentation project List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-doc List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D291048 --- Comment #1 from Graham Perrin --- Thanks.=20 might help to put boot -s in context.=20=20 >> I stumbled into a lowercase boot: prompt, at which=20 >> boot -s is not recognised.=20 >>=20 >> Is boot: different from Boot: (uppercase B)? >> >> (Screenshot provided.) >=20 > That's boot2. It's not where you want to boot single user from.=20 > It's what loads /boot/loader which gives a menu. From there, hit=20 > escape and type boot -s at the ok prompt... all boot2 knows is how to=20 > load /boot/loader, the kernel 20 years ago lost the ability to boot=20 > from boot2... it's path syntax is super weird.. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=