docs/67806: Let 5.x users know how to boot into single user mode in cutting-edge.

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 7 19:50:29 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/67806; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org>
To: "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy at sepulcrum.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/67806: Let 5.x users know how to boot into single user mode in cutting-edge.
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:44:44 +0300

 > Patch can be viewed at: http://liamfoy.kerneled.org/fix.diff
 
 When the patch is a minor edit like this one, it usually isn't a very
 serious problem to see the entire diff as part of the PR text IMHO :)
 
 : --- /hd3/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml	Thu Jun 10 19:51:47 2004
 : +++ /hd3/chapter.sgml	Thu Jun 10 19:59:56 2004
 : @@ -749,8 +749,9 @@
 :  	mode.</para>
 :  
 :        <para>Alternatively, reboot the system, and at the boot prompt,
 : -        enter the <option>-s</option> flag. The system will then boot
 : -	single user.  At the shell prompt you should then run:</para>
 : +        enter the <option>-s</option> flag (5.x users press 4 at boot 
 : +	up menu). The system will then boot single user.  At the shell 
 : +	prompt you should then run:</para>
 :  
 :        <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fsck -p</userinput>
 :  &prompt.root; <userinput>mount -u /</userinput>
 
 Two comments:
 
 a. Your editor seems to be inserting trailing whitespace when lines are
 wrapped.  This means that the lines starting with + in the diff above
 insert whitespace that someone will have to delete later.
 
 b. Is "just press 4" some magic key combo for the boot loader of 5.X?
 I've been using a lot of different keys: SPACE, RETURN, ESC are a few of
 those.  There is nothing different to the boot process of 5.X regarding
 single-user mode AFAIK.
 
 Did I miss/overlook  something?
 



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