Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:04:30 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <freyes@inch.com> To: "Don Croyle" <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>, "Parker Brown" <phbrown@gte.net> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cannot Boot Up Into Single-User Mode Message-ID: <199908151507.LAA01231@arutam.inch.com>
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On 14 Aug 1999 14:18:33 -0500, Don Croyle wrote: > >What you have to do is catch the loader while it's counting down to an >automatic boot and use the commands > > set boot_single > boot You can also just use "boot -s" My understanding is that by the time you get the countdown the kernel is already loaded in memory. The boot command tells it to load the kernel in memory and by adding "-s" it just passes it. These notes of course apply if you are using 3.2 Also remember than the countdown uses [enter] to stop the wait and load. So you need to press something else like Space Bar. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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