Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 19:50:29 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/67806: Let 5.x users know how to boot into single user mode in cutting-edge. Message-ID: <200407071950.i67JoT4h081953@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/67806; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/67806: Let 5.x users know how to boot into single user mode in cutting-edge. Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:44:44 +0300 > Patch can be viewed at: http://liamfoy.kerneled.org/fix.diff When the patch is a minor edit like this one, it usually isn't a very serious problem to see the entire diff as part of the PR text IMHO :) : --- /hd3/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml Thu Jun 10 19:51:47 2004 : +++ /hd3/chapter.sgml Thu Jun 10 19:59:56 2004 : @@ -749,8 +749,9 @@ : mode.</para> : : <para>Alternatively, reboot the system, and at the boot prompt, : - enter the <option>-s</option> flag. The system will then boot : - single user. At the shell prompt you should then run:</para> : + enter the <option>-s</option> flag (5.x users press 4 at boot : + up menu). The system will then boot single user. At the shell : + prompt you should then run:</para> : : <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fsck -p</userinput> : &prompt.root; <userinput>mount -u /</userinput> Two comments: a. Your editor seems to be inserting trailing whitespace when lines are wrapped. This means that the lines starting with + in the diff above insert whitespace that someone will have to delete later. b. Is "just press 4" some magic key combo for the boot loader of 5.X? I've been using a lot of different keys: SPACE, RETURN, ESC are a few of those. There is nothing different to the boot process of 5.X regarding single-user mode AFAIK. Did I miss/overlook something?
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