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stuck in singleuser-boot mode
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Jun 27, 2004, 04:09 AM
 
Hi Guys,

I played around with cocktail today and accidently switched the bootmode to singleuser-bootmode - now I'm stuck here and I haven't got a clue how to get my aqua back.

I googled for help and came up with setting the firmware boot args back to "" (sudo /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args="".), that didn't help though.
/etc/ttys looks normal too, as far as I can see no changes were made by Cocktail.

Does anyone have a clue how Cocktail forces the mac to boot Singleuser mode and how to reset it?

Thanks a ton!
     
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Jun 27, 2004, 04:23 AM
 
Wow, that's weird. So you're sure boot-args is clear? Did you check in OF (cmd-opt-o-f at boot, then "printenv")
     
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Jun 27, 2004, 04:39 AM
 
Thanks for the pointer!

I already tried a script to start aqua, that didn't work either though.
After reading your Post, I double checked the atributes and noticed that they still weren't clear. I forgot to mount the filesystem rw before perfoming the change.

Works fine again.
     
   
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