Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!metro!otc!malcolmp From: malcolmp@otca.oz (Malcolm Purvis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Booting Interactive UNIX in single user mode. Summary: How do you boot Interactive in single user mode? Keywords: Interactive boot single user Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 07:01:47 GMT Sender: news@otc.otca.oz Organization: OTC Development Unit Lines: 18 The installation of a new network device and driver on one of our Interactive 2.0.2 machines has resulted in an error in the /etc/netd.cf file and so /etc/netd fails when the machine reboots. This has had the useful side effect of hanging the reboot sequence so I never get a login prompt and thus can't fix the file. So, is there anyway I can boot up the thing in single user mode so I can fix the stupid file? The man page for init says that it will only prompt for an init level to start up in if there is no initdefault entry in /etc/inittab, which of course there is by default and I have no way of logging in to change it. Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling UNIX? Thanks in Advance. -- Malcolm Purvis (malcolmp@otc.otca.oz.au) R&D Contractor, OTC Development. OTC Limited, Sydney, Australia.