From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 19: 2:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDE614DAF for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgotzmann@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.65.130.100]) by mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with ESMTP id <19990402030214.OHMD20502.mail.rdc1.ab.home.com@home.com> for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:02:14 -0800 Message-ID: <35230201.C9B2C205@home.com> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 20:12:02 -0700 From: Conrad Gotzmann Reply-To: cgotzmann@home.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: enter single user mode version 3,1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How do I enter single user mode in release 3.1 this is to allow me to change the root password. -s as in version 2.2.8 does nothing but normally boot. pressing anykey gets me to a prompt but using mount -u / errors. where to go from here. Thanks...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message