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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 1995 15:14:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Two FreeBSD Questions: starting single-user, and modem lights prog?
Message-ID:  <199511072314.PAA03226@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951107144930.234A-100000@ncc-1701-d> from "Donald Burr" at Nov 7, 95 02:54:39 pm

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> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1.	How do you start the system single-user, from the boot prompt?
> 	In Linux, you could give a commnad (using LILO boot loader) like:
> 	<kernel_name> single
> 	that would get you into single-user mode.  Is there a FreeBSD
> 	equivalent?  I couldn't seem to find any documentation on this.
when faced with the prompt 
boot:
type -s
e.g.

boot: -s
there are other options 
I belive they are in a man page (boot?) but I forget which





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