Urgent Help needed: How to boot in single user mode with usb
keyboard
Erik Nørgaard
norgaard at locolomo.org
Sun Mar 26 17:41:47 UTC 2006
Ian Lord wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently in a maintenance window trying to rebuildworld...
>
> I am doing it on a dell poweredge with a built in drac wich emulate a
> usb keyboard...
>
> When I need to boot on the drac, I need to use boot with usb keyboard in
> the menu...
>
> Now I need to boot in single mode WITH usb keyboard and I can't figure
> out...
>
> I saw in a post that I could do the following in boot loader:
>
> set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
> boot -s
Is the kernel you boot built with support for usb keyboard? if not, I
think you can do something like
load ukbd
boot -s
you may also need some other modules depending on your hardware.
Cheers, Erik
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