I've known this for some time, never thought to share it though, it is quite useful. And it looks funny when the OS X boot screen pops up on top of your desktop (use -g).
And why would you use 'sudo shutdown -r now' when you can just type 'sudo reboot'...using shutdown with the -r option just calls reboot anyways. Save yourself some typing 
As for starting the rest of OS X from the command-line (single-user mode I'm assuming?) make sure to mount your volumes read/write and then just run 'SystemStarter -g' (without the quotes obviously...the -g is for graphical startup)
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Well I just tested the method I described above for starting the rest of OS X from single-user mode and it seems to just leave my iBook trapped on the generic blue desktop after starting all the system services... I know it worked on previous versions of OS X, I guess they changed it in 10.2 so it doesn't work...   Then again they've changed a lot of things you can and can't do from single-user... I could change your root password to whatever I want from single user without having to know what it was originally on 10.0.x....ahh the good old days  
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Last edited by kommakazi; December 4th, 2002 at 12:20 AM.
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