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Date:      Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:40:27 +0000
From:      Alex <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk>
To:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot: -s , and nothing
Message-ID:  <19991204164027.A294@frustum.clara.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <19991204155325.C568@marder-1>
References:  <19991204152531.A3213@frustum.clara.co.uk> <19991204155325.C568@marder-1>

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Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote :

> On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:25:31PM +0000, Alex wrote:
> > 
> > On start-up if I specify the "-s" switch ( e.g. boot: -s ) to boot
> > into single user mode it just gets ignored and boots into multiple
> > user mode.
> > 
> > Does anybody have any idea what causes this or how I could boot into
> > single user mode ?
> > 
> > I am running 3.3, on PII, 64MB, 6GB disk. I did recompile the kernel.
> > 
> 
> It depends where you stopped the boot process.
> 
> If you stopped it when just ``-'' is displayed in the top left corner
> of the screen you have to give it the kernel name,
> e.g. ``/kernel -s''.
> 
> If you stopped it at the 10-second countdown you just type
> ``boot -s''.
> 
> I'm fairly sure I've got the above right, but I can't reboot at the
> moment to check.
> 
> If all else fails, once it's come up multi-user ``shutdown now'' will
> take it down to single-user.
> 
> HTH

Thank you Mark, your advice worked.

-Alex


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