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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:52:35 -0700
From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
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Subject: Re: single user mode
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And Jean Tran spoke:
> Hi,
> 	I run into a problem when trying to follow the instruction from the 
> handbook. I need to get into the single user mode to change a forgotten 
> root password. I can get into either the boot2 prompt(boot prompt) or the 
> multi_user mode(login prompt) when press any key(except ENTER) after the 
> bootstrap loader. I then tried boot -s or just -s, and none of them will 
> bring up the single user mode. I am not sure what I did wrong here. Please 
> advise. Thanx.
> 
> regards,
> Jean 

I've always had to do 'boot -s kernel' to make it work.

Joseph


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