08-14-2007
Single user mode
Your Unix Version?..
Just to share i'm using unix 5.1b on My HP DS15 Alpha Server.
To boot single user mode:
Open a session as root, and shutdown the system with the following command:
# shutdown -h now
Boot now the system in single-user mode with the following firmware command:
>>> boot -fl s
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I'm not sure if it helps...
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REBOOT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual REBOOT(8)
NAME
reboot, poweroff, halt -- restarting, powering down and stopping the system
SYNOPSIS
halt [-dlnpqvxz]
poweroff [-dlnqvxz]
reboot [-dlnqvxz] [arg ...]
DESCRIPTION
The poweroff, halt and reboot utilities flush the file system cache to disk, send all running processes a SIGTERM, wait for up to 30 seconds
for them to die, send a SIGKILL to the survivors and, respectively, power down, halt or restart the system. The action is logged, including
entering a shutdown record into the login accounting file and sending a message via syslog(3).
The options are as follows:
-d Create a dump before halting or restarting. This option is useful for debugging system dump procedures or capturing the state of a
corrupted or misbehaving system.
-l Suppress sending a message via syslog(3) before halting or restarting.
-n Do not flush the file system cache. This option should be used with extreme caution. It can be used if a disk or a processor is on
fire.
-p Attempt to powerdown the system. If the powerdown fails, or the system does not support software powerdown, the system will halt.
This option is only valid for halt.
-v To enable verbose messages on the console, pass the boothowto(9) flag AB_VERBOSE to reboot(2).
-x To enable debugging messages on the console, pass the boothowto(9) flag AB_DEBUG to reboot(2).
-z To silence some shutdown messages on the console, pass the boothowto(9) flag AB_SILENT to reboot(2).
-q Do not give processes a chance to shut down before halting or restarting. This option should not normally be used.
If there are any arguments passed to reboot they are concatenated with spaces and passed as bootstr to the reboot(2) system call. The string
is passed to the firmware on platforms that support it.
Normally, the shutdown(8) utility is used when the system needs to be halted or restarted, giving users advance warning of their impending
doom.
SEE ALSO
reboot(2), syslog(3), utmp(5), boot(8), init(8), rescue(8), shutdown(8), sync(8)
HISTORY
A reboot command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
The poweroff command first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.
CAVEATS
Once the command has begun its work, stopping it before it completes will probably result in a system so crippled it must be physically
reset. To prevent premature termination, the command blocks many signals early in its execution. However, nothing can defend against delib-
erate attempts to evade this.
This command will stop the system without running any shutdown(8) scripts. Amongst other things, this means that swapping will not be dis-
abled so that raid(4) can shutdown cleanly. You should normally use shutdown(8) unless you are running in single user mode.
BUGS
The single user shell will ignore the SIGTERM signal. To avoid waiting for the timeout when rebooting or halting from the single user shell,
you have to exec reboot or exec halt.
BSD
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