Back to basics

[Keith Watson]

Hi all,

I need to boot to single user mode so that I can attempt to 
correct an input/output error on my disk. Um, really feel silly 
asking this, but as I have never done it without a cdrom, here 
goes.

How do I boot to single user mode?

-- 
Keith Watson
kwatson at smed.yi.org

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