single-user mode gone - help

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zold

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Hi.
For you power-users ...
I have relied on single user mode for fsck-ing for a while now. Twice, when doing freelance work on-site I have run into OS 10.2+ machines that refuse to boot in single-user mode. Now I'm having this problem on my home machine, and it is really bugging me (running 10.2.6). When I try command-s on startup, the machine just hangs forever very early in the boot process with a black screen. I haven't been able to find any information about this problem. How do I best diagnose it? Is there a file or a group of files in the system that I should look at? Has anyone else found this problem and, hopefully, fixed it?
Any help is GREATLY appreciated
thanks in advance
Chris G
 
Can you bear the weight of downloading 10.2.8? I suggest you upgrade to the latest version of 10.2 and see if the problem persists.
 
Like he said, upgrade... then check your system for permissions and fix disk errors before you try again... then we'll see.
 
Hi and thanks for the replies. I found out (thanks to macfixit forum) that one of my video cards - the one I'm using normally - does not initialize early enough in the boot process, which means that I actually am in single user mode, but the monitor is dead. This means I have to switch to the original video card whenever I restart in s.u.m.
Thanks for the replies. It may be time soon to upgrade to 10.2.8 soon, anyway ...

Cheers

Chris G

zold said:
Hi.
For you power-users ...
I have relied on single user mode for fsck-ing for a while now. Twice, when doing freelance work on-site I have run into OS 10.2+ machines that refuse to boot in single-user mode. Now I'm having this problem on my home machine, and it is really bugging me (running 10.2.6). When I try command-s on startup, the machine just hangs forever very early in the boot process with a black screen. I haven't been able to find any information about this problem. How do I best diagnose it? Is there a file or a group of files in the system that I should look at? Has anyone else found this problem and, hopefully, fixed it?
Any help is GREATLY appreciated
thanks in advance
Chris G
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or you can boot into single user mode, wait a few seconds, enter your fsck, wait a couple mins, do it again maybe, etc, then hit exit and have fun :)
 
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