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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!uunet!pipex!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: PC keeps rebooting after install Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 11:29:37 GMT Message-ID: <C3rx9D.Cvt@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <C3r7MJ.734@sugar.neosoft.com> <1np5io$3gg@walt.ee.pdx.edu> Lines: 19 In article <1np5io$3gg@walt.ee.pdx.edu> rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes) writes: > : That gives you a nice safe place to ^C into single-user mode anyway. > The proper way to force the system to enter single user mode is to type ^C > during the fsck, this causes fsck to exit with a bad status. If I want to put the system into single-user mode, the *last* thing I want it to do is go ahead and automatically fsck my root partition. All too often the reason I'm going to single-user mode is because something is squirly, and fsck can take you from "squirly" to "reinstall time", with the best of intentions, just like *that* (see the thread on Sys Admin horror stories in comp.unix.admin). If I DO want that FSCK done, I can always kick it off manually. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.