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From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
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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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