[OpenIndiana-discuss] Single User Mode?? How??

[Ignacio Marambio Catán]

it's with -s not single
but you're better off by booting with the livecd, mounting the /
dataset and changing the password with that

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Hans J. Albertsson
<hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
> I can't seem to make the standard way to boot into single user mode from
> grub work, but then, again, I'm reading linux docs, really.
>
> I start up.
> Get to grub
> stop the booting
> select my OS version
> go to the kernel$ line
> add "single" at the end....
>
> If I type RETURN (ENTER for the PC guys) at the end, the edit seems to
> stick.
>
> I do just one ESC, to the "edit OS entry" screen, and type "b".
>
> No joy, it just gets to multiuser mode.
>
> I've been looking at the various docs on the net, nothing obviously relevant
> springs to my screen.
>
> Help!
>
> ( I need to reset the root password, I got busy with other things for a
> while, and forgot the root password. )
>
>
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