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Date:      Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:17:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
To:        lists.br@gmail.com, mexas@bris.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: single user mode?
Message-ID:  <201412061917.sB6JH7pU013725@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CAB=2f8yRMZc3m18gWUE%2BP-b=moAhEpqEi2sF9DeXokpiExvOUA@mail.gmail.com>

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>From lists.br@gmail.com Sat Dec  6 14:22:54 2014
>> Is it possible to enter a single user mode
>> on arm 10.1-release?
>>
>> 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?
>
>If you are using RPi with official or crochet images then yes, you can
>force it to boot in single user mode and run fsck, but (and there
>always a but) you can only do that from serial console, the vt
>framebuffer starts too late to allow you to break into loader prompt.

so I need a usb to serial converter for this, right?

Anton



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