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From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: PC keeps rebooting after install
Message-ID: <1993Mar12.173430.10813@uvm.edu>
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References: <C3r7MJ.734@sugar.neosoft.com> <1np5io$3gg@walt.ee.pdx.edu> <C3rx9D.Cvt@sugar.neosoft.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 17:34:30 GMT
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In article <C3rx9D.Cvt@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1np5io$3gg@walt.ee.pdx.edu> rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes) writes:
>> 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 proper way to force the system to enter single-user mode is to get
bootblocks like Julian's adapted Mach ones, and then type `-s' at the
prompt.  No fsck, just a simple root shell.  (Unless you do like I did
and modify init to run /etc/rc.single first...)

-GAWollman

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