From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 15 8: 8:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arutam.inch.com (ns.inch.com [207.240.140.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC3C15357 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freyes@inch.com) Received: from your-name (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by arutam.inch.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/UTIL-INCH-2.0.0) with SMTP id LAA01231; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:07:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199908151507.LAA01231@arutam.inch.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Don Croyle" , "Parker Brown" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:04:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Cannot Boot Up Into Single-User Mode Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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