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From: mconlon@holly.stat.ufl.edu (Mike Conlon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Interrupting boot
Keywords: rc, boot, single-user mode
Message-ID: <1991May10.143009.4877@eng.ufl.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 14:30:09 GMT
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Reply-To: mconlon@holly.stat.ufl.edu (Mike Conlon)
Organization: U of Florida. Statistics Dept.
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Thanks to the many people who responded to my query (yesterday)
about interrupting the boot process to edit /etc/rc.

I knew Command-` would get the the ROM monitor. I didn't know the
exact options on the boot command to go to single user.

bsd -s       for hard drive
bod -s       for optical

worked fine. I was then able to use vi to edit /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local
and /etc/hostconfig to make the machine stand-alone.

Thanks again to all who responded.  (You can stop now!)

-- 
Michael Conlon                  
Department of Statistics               
University of Florida