Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-29 Thread Joe
Teske, Devin wrote: On Apr 28, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Joe wrote: running 9.1 and can not figure how to get into single user mode or safe mode from the BOOT menu. After hitting the 5 or 6 keys to select those options, what do you do next to continue? Based on your description it sounds like you

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-29 Thread Teske, Devin
On Apr 29, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Joe wrote: Teske, Devin wrote: On Apr 28, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Joe wrote: running 9.1 and can not figure how to get into single user mode or safe mode from the BOOT menu. After hitting the 5 or 6 keys to select those options, what do you do next to continue? Based on

enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Joe
running 9.1 and can not figure how to get into single user mode or safe mode from the BOOT menu. After hitting the 5 or 6 keys to select those options, what do you do next to continue? Hitting enter key just boots the system without regard to options selected. Can not find usage of boot

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:44:46 -0400, Joe wrote: running 9.1 and can not figure how to get into single user mode or safe mode from the BOOT menu. After hitting the 5 or 6 keys to select those options, what do you do next to continue? Hitting enter key just boots the system without regard

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Polytropon free...@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

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Teske, Devin
On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Polytropon free...@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

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Teske, Devin
On Apr 28, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Joe wrote: running 9.1 and can not figure how to get into single user mode or safe mode from the BOOT menu. After hitting the 5 or 6 keys to select those options, what do you do next to continue? Based on your description it sounds like you have the following

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/28/2013 7:50 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: mount -u -o rw / or mount -u -rw / (just thought I'd save you 2 keystrokes, nyuk nyuk) Or mount -ua

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Robert Huff
Joshua Isom writes: mount -u -o rw / or mount -u -rw / (just thought I'd save you 2 keystrokes, nyuk nyuk) Or mount -ua Understand this mounts all filesystems not marked noauto in fstab ... whether that's the right thing or not.

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Teske, Devin wrote: 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