Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!jonb From: jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: How do you boot Interactive's SysV in single user mode??? Message-ID: <1990Aug16.150551.13573@specialix.co.uk> Date: 16 Aug 90 15:05:51 GMT References: <26049@bellcore.bellcore.com> Organization: Specialix International, London Lines: 35 brando@uicslsb.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) writes: >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 Sorry Michael, but you can't. (sweeping statement there, better get the asbestos suit out). What you CAN do is use your boot floppies. Boot & swap to the second (Assuming its a two floppy boot) and wat for the system to sit at some prompt asking you about installation and all that jazz. Prod the DEL key a few times and (if you are lucky) you'll end up at a shell prompt. From here you should have enough tools to mount the disk (/etc/mount /dev/dsk/0s1 /mnt) and edit the inittab using ed. The line you are looking for starts 'is:2:' or 'is:3:' Change the number to be an 'S'. write the file out, sync the disk (traditional), unmount the disk, and shut the system down. (sync; sync; uadmin 2 0) Hopefully the world will be better when you reboot from the HD (No guarantees, all from the top of my head, sorry if its wrong, but no-one else seemed to be helping this guy & I couldn't get email to fly.) -- "These opinions are made up on the spur of the moment, and bear no relationship to my actual beliefs, let alone those of Specialix" Jon Brawn, jonb@specialix.co.uk (or for you bangers: ..!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!jonb)