> 
> 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
> 
> 
I don't think so. kill -1 1 is how you get init to reread ttys and flog all the getty's, etc.