From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 14 12:19:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw5-17.fwi.com [209.84.173.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47BD14FE6 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:19:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA51027; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:18:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle) To: Parker Brown Subject: Re: Cannot Boot Up Into Single-User Mode Cc: questions@freebsd.org References: <37B5AF4F.8F36761@gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 14 Aug 1999 14:18:33 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Parker Brown's message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:02:56 -0700" Message-ID: <86emh6qigm.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Parker Brown writes: > I've tried using -s at every available part of the booting process, > but that just doesn't seem to be an option. > It DID come up in single user mode, though, when I screwed up my > /etc/fstab file, but I don't seem to be able to selectively do so. > Seems that I would HAVE to boot up single user if root's password goes > astray (a la, an entry in the FAQ file) > Did I leave something out of the kernel when I rebuilt it? See the loader(8) man page. What you have to do is catch the loader while it's counting down to an automatic boot and use the commands set boot_single boot -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message