From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 09:13:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C0316A4CF; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:13:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr (postfix3-1.free.fr [213.228.0.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151EE43D41; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:13:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by postfix3-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5CA173518; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:13:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E67C8407C; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:13:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:13:14 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: John Palmer Message-ID: <20050222091314.GH1437@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is Freebsd 5.3 safe mode ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:13:52 -0000 Hello John, > I have installed Freebsd 5.3. When the machine boots up, it gives me > several options if I want to boot up in Default Mode, Safe Mode, Single > User mode, etc. I understand Single user mode. What is the difference > between Safe Mode and Default Mode? IIRC, this disables ACPI. I looked for it in the manpage, but I wasn't able to discover the exact meaning of this mode. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen dot org