how to get into single user mode

[Andrew Gierth]

>>>>> "vagner" == vagner  <george at vagner.com> writes:

 vagner> i made a mistake in my /etc/fstab on an external drive setting
 vagner> not on the boot device and the system wont boot, it stops after
 vagner> the ethernet detection and then random unblocking device.

 vagner> as the system boots up it does show to press a key to get into
 vagner> single user mode but the keyboard is not initialized yet.

You don't say what hardware this is? But my guess is that it's expecting
a serial console, and so the single-user prompts are going there rather
than to the screen. (I had that a lot when first setting up the RPI.)

-- 
Andrew.