Re: [general] how to get serial console for single user bootup

["B. Douglas Hilton" <bdhilton@charter.net>]

Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:00:20AM +0200, Stefan Wuerthner wrote:
>
> > Well, I already get:
> >
> > 1. kernel boot messages
> > 2. login for standard startup (multi-user)
> >
> > Only the login for single user startup is missing...
>
>
> Hmm, bizzare.  Must be somethign strange about the way the debian boot
> scripts are setup then.  I'll leave it to the debian-experts on the
> debian-arm list ;)

If you whap the spacebar at bootup and from Nettrom issue:

> boot cmd=single

then it will boot to runlevel 1.

You can go single-user any time in Debian by:

# init 1