"Dave Weir" <daveweir_99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hey all,
>
> I have an AIX box here that hangs just minutes after the boot sequence
> is finished, if it gets that far. Anyway, the box is stuck there and I
> cannot access it. Anyone know how I can interrupt the system during boot
> and drop it to single-user mode?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave
>

How are you booting the system ? shutdown ??
If shutdown then there would be options in the shutdown command to get it to
single user mode.
Read the man page.

shutdown itself would be a shell script, you could take a look and see if
you detect where it could be
getting stuck.

One instance which I saw of shutdowns getting stuck , was if the console is
XOFF'ed

Dhrit