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From: bennett@sgi.com (Jim Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: booting to single user from prom
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.225713.11759@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 22:57:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.220124.9827@odin.corp.sgi.com> hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) writes:
>
>someone asked me how to boot to single user from prom, but
>i lost his email.  sorry to waste the bandwidth.
>
>from prom:
>
>>>boot dkip()unix initstate=s
>
>
>-- ivan
>
>--
>
>Ivan M. Hajadi                   "- fun fact 0 = 1 | fact x = x*fact x-1;"
>Silicon Graphics, Inc.           "> fn fact : int -> int"
>hajadi@csd.sgi.com   (voice) 415-335-7323   (fax) 415-961-6502  

Or, on a Personal Iris, you can type:

	single

Jim Bennett				(bennett@esd.sgi.com)