it's with -s not single but you're better off by booting with the livecd, mounting the / dataset and changing the password with that
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se> wrote: > I can't seem to make the standard way to boot into single user mode from > grub work, but then, again, I'm reading linux docs, really. > > I start up. > Get to grub > stop the booting > select my OS version > go to the kernel$ line > add "single" at the end.... > > If I type RETURN (ENTER for the PC guys) at the end, the edit seems to > stick. > > I do just one ESC, to the "edit OS entry" screen, and type "b". > > No joy, it just gets to multiuser mode. > > I've been looking at the various docs on the net, nothing obviously relevant > springs to my screen. > > Help! > > ( I need to reset the root password, I got busy with other things for a > while, and forgot the root password. ) > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
