Date: 4 Apr 1999 00:41:11 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enter single user mode version 3,1 Message-ID: <7e65e7$bcp$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <35230201.C9B2C205@home.com>
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Conrad Gotzmann <cgotzmann@home.com> wrote:
> How do I enter single user mode in release 3.1
> this is to allow me to change the root password.
I'm not sure why you'd want to go into single user mode to change the
root password, but anyway:
> -s as in version 2.2.8 does nothing but normally boot.
> pressing anykey gets me to a prompt but using mount -u / errors.
It gets you to the boot loader prompt. There, enter "boot -s" to boot
up with your default kernel and into single user mode.
You can also drop into single user mode by issuing "kill -TERM 1" (as
root, of course) when in multi user mode.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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