From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 29 11:52:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A70D12A; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:52:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd8@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693671F1D; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.1] ([173.88.202.176]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:52:09 -0700 Message-ID: <517E5EE9.1010605@a1poweruser.com> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:52:09 -0400 From: Joe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Devin Teske Subject: Re: enter single user mode from boot menu References: <517DA65E.8050706@a1poweruser.com> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201F2B7F9@ltcfiswmsgmb21> In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201F2B7F9@ltcfiswmsgmb21> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Apr 2013 11:52:09.0095 (UTC) FILETIME=[FA70F970:01CE44CF] X-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-Authenticated-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-EchoSenderHash: [fbsd8]-[a1poweruser*com] Cc: "" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:52:13 -0000 Teske, Devin wrote: > On Apr 28, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Joe wrote: > > running 9.1 and can not figure how to get into single user mode or safe mode from the > BOOT menu. > After hitting the 5 or 6 keys to select those options, what do you do next to continue? > > > Based on your description it sounds like you have the following boot menu > (regardless of color): > http://twitpic.com/b1pkz1 > > Pressing 5 or 6 changes the status from "off" to "On" > > Hitting enter key just boots the system without regard to options selected. > > > Pressing ENTER is supposed to boot with the displayed options. > Yes this is what I was experiencing. > > Can not find usage of boot menu in the handbook. > > > The 4th files are heavily documented in man-pages as well as by loader and boot manuals. > -- > Devin > > P.S. There have been enhancements already that will come down with 9.2 that add a top-level "Boot single user mode" option simply by pressing "s" -- thus making it like the boot menus of 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x ("s" to boot single user). > > Devin Background info. I had put load commands for ipfw modules into /boot/loader.conf to test if this would work with a kernel that has vimage compiled in. The boot process would start normally and progress to the point where the usb messages get displayed and them the system would freeze up becoming unresponsive. Figured I would just reboot and go in single user mode and remove the statements from loader.conf. But no matter what I tried the boot menu would no go into single user mode. The solution was to take a testing disk that had 9.1-rc3 on it and cable it as master and the original disk as slave. In this configuration the system booted correctly and I mounted the slave and corrected loader.conf. Recabled the original disk as master and was back in business. I think that because the ipfw modules were loaded before the boot process got to the boot menu is what caused the boot menu to not function correctly. Don't see a PR in this case. Thanks to all who replied.