From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 21:54:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAB731518C for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:54:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: by dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (5.64+1.3.1+0.50/UA-5.19) id AA28215; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:22:48 +0930 From: Gregory Lewis Message-Id: <9904060452.AA28215@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: single user mode In-Reply-To: <19990405151357.A91237@wopr.caltech.edu> from Matthew Hunt at "Apr 5, 99 03:13:57 pm" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:22:48 +0930 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 479 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > how _do_ you get into single user mode anyhow? > > Type "-s" at the "Boot:" prompt. This is a little different with 3.1 and the new boot loader. You have to press a key other than enter when it gives you the timer for the default boot, you'll then get a prompt with the default root device, something like disk1s1a> At that prompt you need to type "boot -s" -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message