From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 4 7:54:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADFA714F6C for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 07:54:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 7772 invoked from network); 4 Dec 1999 15:53:35 -0000 Received: from useran63.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.135.80) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 1999 15:53:35 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id PAA01006; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 15:53:26 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 15:53:25 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Alex Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot: -s , and nothing Message-ID: <19991204155325.C568@marder-1> References: <19991204152531.A3213@frustum.clara.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991204152531.A3213@frustum.clara.co.uk> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:25:31PM +0000, Alex wrote: > > On start-up if I specify the "-s" switch ( e.g. boot: -s ) to boot > into single user mode it just gets ignored and boots into multiple > user mode. > > Does anybody have any idea what causes this or how I could boot into > single user mode ? > > I am running 3.3, on PII, 64MB, 6GB disk. I did recompile the kernel. > It depends where you stopped the boot process. If you stopped it when just ``-'' is displayed in the top left corner of the screen you have to give it the kernel name, e.g. ``/kernel -s''. If you stopped it at the 10-second countdown you just type ``boot -s''. I'm fairly sure I've got the above right, but I can't reboot at the moment to check. If all else fails, once it's come up multi-user ``shutdown now'' will take it down to single-user. HTH > Thank you for your time. > > -Alex > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message