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  • July 14, 2008 at 12:37 pm #373372
    gw1500se
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    I am having trouble with an Xserve (10.4.11) and need to ‘fsck’ the boot drive. Unfortunately, for some reason I cannot get the machine to boot in single user mode. I have tried a couple of keyboards but the Apple-S is just not working. As an alternative I was going to do an ‘init -s’ but Apple has apparently hidden that command somewhere.

    Therefore my question is, how do I get this silly machine into single user mode? TIA.

    July 14, 2008 at 4:55 pm #373383
    gw1500se
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    [QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]nvram boot-args=”-s”[/p][/QUOTE]
    Cool! That worked. Now how do I get it back correctly? I put in ‘nvram boot-args=”1″‘ which seems to be working. However, when I do a ‘nvram -p’ it says:

    boot-args 1 srv=1

    but when I do it on another server it says:

    boot-args srv=1

    Did I do something wrong? Thanks.

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