How do you boot Interactive's SysV in single user mode???

[Jon Brawn]

brando at uicslsb.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) writes:

>mo at messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes:

>>Well- how in the world do you get it to come up single user?????

>I know this isn't EXACTLY what you are looking for, but....

>if you change /etc/inittab's entry for initdefault to 1, it will boot to
>single user mode everytime. I know of no other easy way to do this...

>Brando

Sorry Michael, but you can't. (sweeping statement there, better get the
asbestos suit out).

What you CAN do is use your boot floppies. Boot & swap to the second (Assuming
its a two floppy boot) and wat for the system to sit at some prompt asking you
about installation and all that jazz. Prod the DEL key a few times and (if you
are lucky) you'll end up at a shell prompt. From here you should have enough
tools to mount the disk (/etc/mount /dev/dsk/0s1 /mnt) and edit the inittab
using ed. The line you are looking for starts 'is:2:' or 'is:3:' Change the
number to be an 'S'. write the file out, sync the disk (traditional), 
unmount the disk, and shut the system down. (sync; sync; uadmin 2 0)

Hopefully the world will be better when you reboot from the HD

(No guarantees, all from the top of my head, sorry if its wrong, but no-one
else seemed to be helping this guy & I couldn't get email to fly.)

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