Single user mode Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

"Utility of last resort" AppleJack updated for Leopard compatibility

by Michael Rose (Sep 2nd, 2008)

You may sincerely wish never to need it, but if you run into a situation where your Mac refuses to boot fully to the Finder and you don't have any boot-capable utilities to tackle the problem, Kristofer Widholm's AppleJack is probably your best friend in the trenches. The single-user-mode tool is ...

iPhone Tales of Woe: Booting to Single User

by Erica Sadun (Jul 27th, 2007)

A short while back, Digg hosted a link to this crashed iPhone showing single user mode. In that case, the error message stated that the iPhone couldn't "exec /bin/sh for single user: No such file or directory." Now that the iPhone has been thoroughly hacked, this error has evolved somewhat. Last ...

AppleJack 1.4.3rc3 adds Intel support

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 7th, 2006)

AppleJack, the wildly popular open source, single user mode troubleshooting tool for Macs, has finally been updated to support Intel-based Macs. Version 1.4.3rc3, a release candidate, is downloadable now on sourceforge and the final version is expected within the week. Besides Intel compatibility, ...

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