Can't reboot into single mode

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 11 September 2005 18:43, Roland Smith wrote:
> > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0
> >
> > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv1
> >
> > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv2
> >
> > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv3
> >
> > and the system hangs
>
> Which begs the questions:
> - does /usr/libexec/getty exist?
> - is it executable?
> - is /usr mounted in single user mode?

The real question is..
If this is single user mode, why is it trying to run getty?

My guess is that, in fact, he isn't really booting into single user mode..

Try breaking into the loader (ie press space at the count down) then type 
'boot -s'.

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