single-user mode

[Kent Stewart]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 08:41 am, Dru wrote:
> It's been a while since I've had to enter single-user mode and I've just
> discovered that "boot -s" doesn't work at the "boot" prompt on 5.1-RELEASE.
> (however, it does work nicely if I interrupt loader at the next boot
> stage).
>
> In fact, I can't get *anything* to work at the "boot" prompt, or even
> leave that prompt without doing a CTRL ALT DEL. Am I missing something, or
> is the "boot" prompt defunct on 5.x?
>
>

No, but you have to wait for the spinner (|/-\ and etc) before you press the 
space bar. I just tried it as I updated to the latest 5.2-beta.

Kent

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