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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:47:19 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: single user mode?
Message-ID:  <20141205204719.GD25139@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <201412051306.sB5D6otZ007591@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <201412051306.sB5D6otZ007591@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk>

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Anton Shterenlikht wrote this message on Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 05:06 -0800:
> Is it possible to enter a single user mode
> on arm 10.1-release?

If you're using loader, yes it is possible, but often loader is not
used on arm...

> My disk, well.. the sd card, got corrupted,
> so wanted to run fsck on it, but cannot
> enter a single user mode. I ended up putting
> the sd card into a laptop and running fsck there.
> This fixed lots of panics, but is it possible
> to enter the single user mode on arm, and
> run fsck directly there?

You do know of:
fsck_y_enable="NO"      # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.

which might help...

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