enter single user mode from boot menu

[Teske, Devin]

On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> After the BTX loader has started, keep hammering the space
>> bar. :-)
>> 
>> At some point, you'll see the
>> 
>>        Ok
>>        _
>> 
>> prompt. This is where you enter the command
>> 
>>        boot -s
>> 
>> to go into single-user mode. The kernel will load as you would
>> expect, but no further action (rc.d startup) will be taken. Instead
>> you have to confirm the shell (/bin/sh by default) by pressing
>> enter at the
>> 
>>        When prompted Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
>> 
>> prompt; and then you're left at the
>> 
>>        # _
>> 
>> prompt, which means you're in single user mode. Type "exit" to
>> start into multi-user mode as usual.
>> 
>> 
> In single user mode, the root filesystem will be the only one mounted, and
> it will be mounted read-only.
> 
> If you need to make changes (Correcting a fat-fingered edit to /etc/fstab,
> for example), you'll need to mount root rw.
> 
> mount -u -o rw /

or

mount -u -rw /

(just thought I'd save you 2 keystrokes, nyuk nyuk)
-- 
Devin

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