From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 8:13:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.all.org (bdsl.66.12.117.154.gte.net [66.12.117.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C66037B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BD82C1B.3040503@nicholasofmyra.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:13:31 -0400 From: Joseph MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=2Equestions?= @freebsd.org" Cc: leburke@mindspring.com Subject: Re: boot hang References: <3.0.5.32.20011025095859.00f46e68@mail.sage-american.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG More specifically, you want to boot: /kernel -s for single user mode. jacks@sage-american.com wrote: >During the very initial bootup, you have a few seconds to choose whether to >boot (hit enter) or hit some other key to go to prompt. That is your safe >mode.... > >At 09:37 AM 10.25.2001 -0400, A. Lester Burke wrote: > >>Question >> >>I have a machine that won't boot completely because, it tells me, it >>can't mount an NFS partition. Problem is it just hangs there, so I >>can't get into the machine to change anything. >> >>The question is : Is there a way to boot up into "safe mode" so that I >>can at least read the error logs or something. ? slight panic, but Ilm >>not screaming yet >> >>Thanks >> >>-- >>A. Lester Burke >>Network Analyst >>Arlington Public Schools, VA >>V 703-228-6057 >>E leburke@mindspring.com >> >>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >>safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." >>Ben Franklin >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > >Best regards, >Jack L. Stone, >Server Admin > >Sage-American >http://www.sage-american.com >jacks@sage-american.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message