starting fresh

David Leimbach leimy2k at mac.com
Tue Dec 9 19:13:37 PST 2003


On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:08 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
>> Ok... now it won't boot from the hard disk into single user mode... :P
>> I say boot -s in the loader and then ufs:hd0s11 [my setup] and it 
>> boots multi-user and I don't have the
>> root password. :P
>
>  I think there's a binary mis-match in boot flags between the
> new loader and the old syscons kernel.
>
>  The workaround is to set the boot_single variable at the loader
> prompt before booting:
>
> OK set boot_single=yes

Ah... that nailed it.. :)


>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>



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