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From: brando@uicslsb.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown)
Subject: Re: How do you boot Interactive's SysV in single user mode???
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Date: 15 Aug 90 23:00:53 GMT
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mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes:

>Well- how in the world do you get it to come up single user?????

I know this isn't EXACTLY what you are looking for, but....

if you change /etc/inittab's entry for initdefault to 1, it will boot to
single user mode everytime. I know of no other easy way to do this...

Brando