[Bug 291048] FAQs 6.3 gives incorrect instructions for booting into single user mode

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291048

--- Comment #1 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> ---
Thanks. 

<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1manjj4/boot_prompt/n76nf0s/?context=1>
might help to put boot -s in context.  

>> I stumbled into a lowercase boot: prompt, at which 
>> boot -s is not recognised. 
>> 
>> Is boot: different from Boot: (uppercase B)?
>>
>> (Screenshot provided.)
> 
> That's boot2. It's not where you want to boot single user from. 
> It's what loads /boot/loader which gives a menu. From there, hit 
> escape and type boot -s at the ok prompt... all boot2 knows is how to 
> load /boot/loader, the kernel 20 years ago lost the ability to boot 
> from boot2... it's path syntax is super weird..

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