Not needing the console for a system reload

[Ph. Schulz]

> 
> Is there a way to give a "shutdown now; <use /bin/sh>; exit" command 
> from the command line if I'm logged in remotely? Or do I really need to 
> use "reboot" and go through the whole hardware reinitialization?
> 

  I don't think this is possible. The reason is (if I understand things 
correctly) that if you're in single user mode, the network isn't 
started, so there's no way of accessing the machine through ssh, rlogin 
or something similar.
  I think you're best off if you hook up a serial console to your 
machine and remotely access that console. There are commercial solutions 
for this but any low-end PC will do.

Phil.