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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