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Digitaldan - Sep 14, 2005 - 3:56 pm

I restarted my computer today and it rebooted in unix... a bunch of random text came up on the screen and then it said something about single-user mode. On Apple.com it says to get out of single-user mode just type reboot then return and I did that but nothing...

So I was wondering if you could tell me how to get out of there and back to the normal mode.


thankx,
Dan

DanTekGeek - Sep 14, 2005 - 4:55 pm

Single user mode is used for diagnostics and troubleshooting. You most likeley accidentally hit "C" while the computer was starting up. If "reboot" does not work, you can try "shutdown".
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Dan Lurie, MacOSX.com Tech
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Digitaldan - Sep 14, 2005 - 6:32 pm

thanks for your help...
I thought what I might have done and I remember playing around in cocktail and turning on single user.. i didn't know what it ment. oops.

but i kept searching and saw all I needed to do was type exit. Makes me feel dumb. but its all fixed now!

thankxz again,
Dan