Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:21:16 -0400 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: single user mode freebsd11/rpi2 Message-ID: <1C74A408-4800-4F36-88A3-DE76DB80037B@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20150912150433.GA1204@potato.growveg.org> References: <20150912150433.GA1204@potato.growveg.org>
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On Sep 12, 2015, at 11:04 AM, John <freebsd-lists@potato.growveg.org> = wrote: > Hello list, >=20 > I need to either make the system single user node by either becoming > it (as root, shutdown now) or booting into it (either at the boot = prompt or > with nextboot) and I can do neither, so obviously I'm going about this > the wrong way. "shutdown now" never returns a prompt and=20 > "nextboot -o "-s" -k kernel *will* boot the kernel after shutdown -p > but I get no prompt. Last two lines of output: >=20 > warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set = accurately > random: unblocking device. >=20 > and there it sits. I left it for 15 mins to make sure it wasn't just = slow. > ctrl-alt-del rebooted the pi but other than that, nothing had any = effect. >=20 > ** also, rebooting didn't fix this. Nextboot, when it boots, attempts = to zero > nextboot.conf but it couldn't do this. In order to get it to boot = again > I had to remove the config by taking the sd card out and mounting it > on another machine. *** >=20 > How can I make it single user mode? The reason this needs to be done = is > I need to move some filesystems around. Are you using a serial console? When you do "shutdown now" it is = probably dropping into the serial console. IIRC, it's the only type of = console supported on the Raspberry Pi right now, though I may be = mistaken. (I've only ever used a serial console on the Raspberry Pi.) Cheers, Paul.
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