Single-user mode is the earliest point when OpenBSD can give you a Unix-style shell prompt. At this point, the kernel has probed all the hardware, attached drivers to all the hardware that it’s going to acknowledge, and started init
. The system hasn’t mounted any filesystems except for the root partition, which is mounted in read-only mode. The network isn’t started, no services are running, security is not implemented, and filesystem permissions are ignored.
To boot OpenBSD in single-user mode, enter boot -s
at the loader prompt.
boot> boot -s
Why would you want to boot into single-user mode? If your computer has a problem that is preventing it from booting, you should be able to access single-user mode and fix the ...
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