On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:46:55PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 25/10/2011, at 22:32, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > > >> Well i did use the single user mode ! > >> And the safe mode ! > >> But they all gave me that error. > >> So the did load the loader.conf file. > > > > I think modules are loaded before displaying boot menu, where you can > > choose to boot in to single user mode. > > But you can enter the boot loader prompt, where you can unload already > > loaded modules or load new modules by its name, so you don't need to edit > > loader.conf for one time boot option. > > They aren't loaded before displaying the menu, but the list of modules to > load is worked out then. > > If you want to boot without loading the modules listed in loader.conf you > need to break into the loader and type.. > unload > boot -s > (or whatever options you want)
Yup, correct. The person who said "single-user mode doesn't read loader.conf!" is absolutely incorrect. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
