{"id":585,"date":"2016-02-03T17:31:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2019-02-07T04:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:38:48","slug":"os-x-el-capitan-start-up-in-single-user-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"OS X El Capitan: Start up in single-user mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/PH21893?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/PH21893?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\">https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/PH21893?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To troubleshoot your computer\u2019s startup sequence using only UNIX commands, start up in single-user mode. You should do this only if you\u2019re comfortable with UNIX.  <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Choose Apple menu &gt; Restart, or press the power button if your Mac is turned off.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Press Command-S as your Mac starts up. <\/p>\n<p>The screen is black with standard white text. You can now run the UNIX commands that you want.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In single-user mode, not all OS X functions are available. To use the standard OS X interface or other high-level aspects of OS X, you need to start up in the standard mode.  <\/p>\n<p>To switch back to the standard OS X interface, type reboot, then press Return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/PH21893?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US To troubleshoot your computer\u2019s startup sequence using only UNIX commands, start up in single-user mode. You should do this only if you\u2019re comfortable with UNIX. Choose Apple menu &gt; Restart, or press the power button if your Mac is turned off. Press Command-S as your Mac starts up. The screen is black with standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}