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 y

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 h

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

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 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 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 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 boo

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 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 t

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

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

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 r