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Date:      Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:32:00 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        'FBSD' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Dropping to single user
Message-ID:  <20020218153200.GD863@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows>
References:  <000601c1b88f$ab8f1680$6400a8c0@windows>

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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 -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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