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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:08:20 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: starting fresh
Message-ID:  <3FD68E24.6020706@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <228CA78C-2ABD-11D8-B092-000A95AFBEB4@mac.com>
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Hi Dave,

> Ok... now it won't boot from the hard disk into single user mode... :P
> 
> I say boot -s in the loader and then ufs:hd0s11 [my setup] and it boots 
> multi-user and I don't have the
> root password. :P

  I think there's a binary mis-match in boot flags between the
new loader and the old syscons kernel.

  The workaround is to set the boot_single variable at the loader
prompt before booting:

OK set boot_single=yes

later,

Peter.



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