[comp.sys.sgi] booting to single user from prom

hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) (02/01/91)

someone asked me how to boot to single user from prom, but
i lost his email.  sorry to waste the bandwidth.

from prom:

>>boot dkip()unix initstate=s


-- ivan

--

Ivan M. Hajadi                   "- fun fact 0 = 1 | fact x = x*fact x-1;"
Silicon Graphics, Inc.           "> fn fact : int -> int"
hajadi@csd.sgi.com   (voice) 415-335-7323   (fax) 415-961-6502  

bennett@sgi.com (Jim Bennett) (02/01/91)

In article <1991Jan31.220124.9827@odin.corp.sgi.com> hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) writes:
>
>someone asked me how to boot to single user from prom, but
>i lost his email.  sorry to waste the bandwidth.
>
>from prom:
>
>>>boot dkip()unix initstate=s
>
>
>-- ivan
>
>--
>
>Ivan M. Hajadi                   "- fun fact 0 = 1 | fact x = x*fact x-1;"
>Silicon Graphics, Inc.           "> fn fact : int -> int"
>hajadi@csd.sgi.com   (voice) 415-335-7323   (fax) 415-961-6502  

Or, on a Personal Iris, you can type:

	single

Jim Bennett				(bennett@esd.sgi.com)

trant@empower.corp.sgi.com (Ken Trant) (02/01/91)

 Or for and IPI drive:
 >>boot ipi()/unix initstate=s

 Ken


In article <1991Jan31.220124.9827@odin.corp.sgi.com>,
hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) writes:
|> 
|> someone asked me how to boot to single user from prom, but
|> i lost his email.  sorry to waste the bandwidth.
|> 
|> from prom:
|> 
|> >>boot dkip()unix initstate=s
|> 
|> 
|> -- ivan
|> 
|> --
|> 
|> Ivan M. Hajadi                   "- fun fact 0 = 1 | fact x =
x*fact x-1;"
|> Silicon Graphics, Inc.           "> fn fact : int -> int"
|> hajadi@csd.sgi.com   (voice) 415-335-7323   (fax) 415-961-6502