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AIX - How to boot to single user mode
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It is Motorola AIX 4.2.1 on a Powerstack box. We tried first booting from CD (As this keyswitch only has on and off) but it didn't boot from the CD, I am looking at other options to make it boot from the CD, I will repost if I get it done. Otherwise anything else you can think of feel free to let me know.
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I am a Sysadmin on SCO but we have a few AIX boxes we support. Recently a customer placed an ODBC startup driver into the RC script, which now causes the box to hang on boot. I am looking for the way to boot to single user mode and remove this line from the script. I am doing this remotely and I have never physically sen an AIX box boot up. Any help appreciated
It is Motorola AIX 4.2.1 on a Powerstack box. We tried first booting from CD (As this keyswitch only has on and off) but it didn't boot from the CD, I am looking at other options to make it boot from the CD, I will repost if I get it done. Otherwise anything else you can think of feel free to let me know.
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I am a Sysadmin on SCO but we have a few AIX boxes we support. Recently a customer placed an ODBC startup driver into the RC script, which now causes the box to hang on boot. I am looking for the way to boot to single user mode and remove this line from the script. I am doing this remotely and I have never physically sen an AIX box boot up. Any help appreciated
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To boot to single user mode, you are going to have to be at the console. I do not know of any way to do this remotely. On the machine there will be a key, and you have to switch it to single user boot up. When the system boots up in single user mode, it does not allow outside connections (hence single user mode).
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If the keyswitch only has on and off, the only way to boot up is off of removable media.
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Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.