You can boot your Apple computer into the command-line-based Single User Mode simply by holding down a key combination at startup.

There's also a verbose mode that displays what background processes are being loaded, and a single-user mode to avoid user accounts and the OS X graphical interface.

Problems with single-user mode We've received reports of a significant issue where the aluminum keyboard cannot generate input in single-user mode (entered by holding down the Command and S keys ...

Can't repair permissions from firewire mode, haven't tried in single user.<BR><BR>That's everything to report.

I have a mac mini that I've forgotten the password to (it's been sitting in a closet for about a year). I'm trying to boot into single user mode to fix it, but I don't have a Mac keyboard and thus ...

LynuxWorks today introduced a PowerPC version of User-Mode Linux (UML) based on the latest Linux 2.6 kernel and available for PowerPC G5. LynuxWorks' UML software will run on a LynuxWorks' BlueCat ...