From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 7:32: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8281937B404 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:32:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16cplo-000DIt-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:32:00 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 99A2613040 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:31:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id 2555A22596; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:32:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:32:00 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: 'FBSD' Subject: Re: Dropping to single user Message-ID: <20020218153200.GD863@raggedclown.net> References: <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Sandro Mancuso wrote: > Hi, not long ago, someone mentioned “dropping to single user” and I was > wondering how. I did get an answer, however I’ve “misplaced” that > reply, so I’m wondering if anyone can refresh my memory… regarding how > to do such a thing without having to reboot after doing make buildworld, > and building/installing the generic kernel (having to do with upgrading > from 4.4 to 4.5stable… etc) > You can do this by typing in "init 1" as the superuser. As someone pointed out though you run a risk with not rebooting into single user, since your new kernel may not boot. With a new userland, and having to reboot the "old" kernel, you run a risk of a problem... So to reboot into single user, when it gets to the 10 second countdown hit something other than return and type "boot -s" at the prompt. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message