On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:

> Actually booting single user didn't work for me because /etc is in the 
> root filesystem and it is read-only when I boot single user using boot 
> -s hd0a:netbsd. Is there a way to boot in single user mode and also 
> write to the root filesystem?

mount it read-write. For example:

http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-misc.html#chap-misc-forgot-root-password 

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/#read-only-to-read-write

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/#why-single-user 

 Jeremy C. Reed

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