Subject: Re: booting to single user mode
To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/12/2000 03:03:03
Wilko Bulte wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:21:06AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> > "M. Possamai" wrote:
> > 
> > > How can I boot to single user mode?
> > > I know I can get there with shutdown now on a running system
> > > but how can I boot to it?
> > 
> > At least on a PC164 it's
> > 
> > 	boot -fl -s
> 
> boot -fl s 
> 
> at least in my experience. Or is the '-' ignored somewhere down the line
> and doesn't it make any difference?

For NetBSD at least (in sys/arch/alpha/alpha/machdep.c):

                case '-':
                        /*
                         * Just ignore this.  It's not required, but it's
                         * common for it to be passed regardless.
                         */
                        break;

OSF^WDU^WTru64 might be different...

Simon.
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