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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: PC keeps rebooting after install Message-ID: <1993Mar12.173430.10813@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <C3r7MJ.734@sugar.neosoft.com> <1np5io$3gg@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <C3rx9D.Cvt@sugar.neosoft.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 17:34:30 GMT Lines: 19 In article <C3rx9D.Cvt@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1np5io$3gg@walt.ee.pdx.edu> rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes) writes: >> The proper way to force the system to enter single user mode is to type ^C >> during the fsck, this causes fsck to exit with a bad status. > >If I want to put the system into single-user mode, [...] The proper way to force the system to enter single-user mode is to get bootblocks like Julian's adapted Mach ones, and then type `-s' at the prompt. No fsck, just a simple root shell. (Unless you do like I did and modify init to run /etc/rc.single first...) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant