Starting OSX single-user

[Samuel Rydh]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:41:00AM +0100, Brian Ruth wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it possible to start MacOS X single user from within MOL? I've managed
> to mess up my OSX NIS configuration, and it now won't boot - it just gets 
> stuck waiting for NIS. I need to boot it single-user to disable NIS, but
> can't seem to get it to do so. Holding down Alt-S (I defined left-Alt as the
> Apple key, since I'm using a PC keyboard) at boot time should theoretically
> do this, but MOL doesn't seem to take any notice of it.
> 
startmol --config=s -X

will do boot OSX into single user mode. MOL does not care about
keys pressed at boot.

/Samuel