Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:52:35 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: single user mode Message-ID: <20000825125235.A95450@mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000825120946.00b19038@127.0.0.1>; from jeann@smartt.com on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 12:15:57PM -0700 References: <4.3.2.20000825120946.00b19038@127.0.0.1>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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