Cannot get to Single user mode

[gw1500se]

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.

[gw1500se]

[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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