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From: gmoff@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Moffat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Booting Single User RS6000
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.022155.24582@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Date: 25 Jan 91 02:21:55 GMT
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Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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tim@tim.ingr.com (Tim Anderson) writes:

>How can you boot an RS6000 into single user mode without booting from
>floppies and without previously modifying /etc/inittab???

cd /;  shutdown -m    (Can't remember where I read this)

Read man for shutdown & telinit for more info

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