From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 13:15:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13D816A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:15:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1BC4401A for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:15:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hB4LFhu31499; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:15:44 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Dru , questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:15:43 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031204113816.J598@genisis> In-Reply-To: <20031204113816.J598@genisis> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312041315.43297.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: single-user mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:15:48 -0000 On Thursday 04 December 2003 08:41 am, Dru wrote: > It's been a while since I've had to enter single-user mode and I've just > discovered that "boot -s" doesn't work at the "boot" prompt on 5.1-RELEASE. > (however, it does work nicely if I interrupt loader at the next boot > stage). > > In fact, I can't get *anything* to work at the "boot" prompt, or even > leave that prompt without doing a CTRL ALT DEL. Am I missing something, or > is the "boot" prompt defunct on 5.x? > > No, but you have to wait for the spinner (|/-\ and etc) before you press the space bar. I just tried it as I updated to the latest 5.2-beta. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html