From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 3 16:41:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9332614FCF for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 16:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id CAA21786 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 02:39:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10TZ6H-000WyZC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Sun, 4 Apr 1999 00:41:13 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: enter single user mode version 3,1 Date: 4 Apr 1999 00:41:11 +0200 Message-ID: <7e65e7$bcp$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <35230201.C9B2C205@home.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Conrad Gotzmann 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. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de >H Deutsche Transhumanismus-Mailingliste echo 'subscribe trans-de' | mail majordomo@lists.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message