From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 15:15:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA08325 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 15:15:34 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA08315 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 15:15:28 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA03226; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 15:14:39 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511072314.PAA03226@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD Questions: starting single-user, and modem lights prog? To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 15:14:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Donald Burr" at Nov 7, 95 02:54:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 459 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Two questions: > > 1. How do you start the system single-user, from the boot prompt? > In Linux, you could give a commnad (using LILO boot loader) like: > single > that would get you into single-user mode. Is there a FreeBSD > equivalent? I couldn't seem to find any documentation on this. when faced with the prompt boot: type -s e.g. boot: -s there are other options I belive they are in a man page (boot?) but I forget which