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 have the following boot menu
(regardless of color):
http://twitpic.com/b1pkz1
Pressing 5 or 6 changes the status from "off" to "On"
Hitting enter key just boots the system without regard to options selected.
Pressing ENTER is supposed to boot with the displayed options.
Yes this is what I was experiencing.
Can not find usage of boot menu in the handbook.
The 4th files are heavily documented in man-pages as well as by loader and boot
manuals.
--
Devin
P.S. There have been enhancements already that will come down with 9.2 that add a top-level "Boot single
user mode" option simply by pressing "s" -- thus making it like the boot menus of 6.x, 7.x,
and 8.x ("s" to boot single user).
Devin
Background info. I had put load commands for ipfw modules into
/boot/loader.conf to test if this would work with a kernel that has
vimage compiled in. The boot process would start normally and progress
to the point where the usb messages get displayed and them the system
would freeze up becoming unresponsive.
Figured I would just reboot and go in single user mode and remove the
statements from loader.conf. But no matter what I tried the boot menu
would no go into single user mode.
The solution was to take a testing disk that had 9.1-rc3 on it and cable
it as master and the original disk as slave. In this configuration the
system booted correctly and I mounted the slave and corrected
loader.conf. Recabled the original disk as master and was back in
business.
I think that because the ipfw modules were loaded before the boot
process got to the boot menu is what caused the boot menu to not
function correctly. Don't see a PR in this case.
Thanks to all who replied.
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