In message <199704200357.XAA26735@gerbils.foolserrant.com> you wrote:

> So you will need to shutdown -r now, and when the kernal loader
> message comes on, hit "-s" it response to it's offer of a place to
> specify a different disk and kernel. That will bring it up in single
> user mode.

Hmmm, I'm using "RiscBSD", more exactly NetBSD/arm32. I don't think the
bootloader can do it like you said (but there is another way).

Someone pointed out another solution, which works without rebooting:
kill 1 -1, which will switch to single user (hope I remembered that 
correctly).

Thank you for your answer,

-- 
Thomas Boroske