Mac Not Letting Me Boot into Single User Mode

[Viamusic10000]

Hello,

I'm trying to boot into single user mode to run apple jack. When I do I get the white text, it prompts me to enter my password at the logic screen. More white text appears and then the text gets so small its unreadable while it runs through a bunch of code. Then it logs me into my account without letting me type anything in single user mode in order to run apple jack. Anything I can do to fix this? I have 70gb of "Other" storage on my drive.

 

[chabig]

I would bet money that Apple Jack won't work on Catalina. I think was last updated in 2010.

 

[Viamusic10000]

I would bet money that Apple Jack won't work on Catalina. I think was last updated in 2010.

Sure but shouldnt i be able to use single user mode regardless? Why is it not letting me type at all?

 

[chabig]

Single user mode is just running the OS without a GUI. It's still Catalina, and you're trying to run obsolete software on it. macOS isn't the same as it was long ago. As for the typing part, who knows?

 

[Viamusic10000]

Single user mode is just running the OS without a GUI. It's still Catalina, and you're trying to run obsolete software on it. macOS isn't the same as it was long ago. As for the typing part, who knows?

Applejack is just a script no?

 

[chabig]

I don't know about that. But even if it is, system resources that the script might refer to could be different or have moved. Also, Catalina changed the default shell to Zsh, so it might not run Bash scripts as expected.

 

[Viamusic10000]

I don't know about that. But even if it is, system resources that the script might refer to could be different or have moved. Also, Catalina changed the default shell to Zsh, so it might not run Bash scripts as expected.

It wasn't installing in root I think I would need to put the system in rootless mode? Also I figured it out and t2 chips can't boot into single user mode the normal way.

 

[MacUser2525]

I don't know about that. But even if it is, system resources that the script might refer to could be different or have moved. Also, Catalina changed the default shell to Zsh, so it might not run Bash scripts as expected.

I would be extremely surprised if zsh failed to follow the #!/bin/bash at the top of the file and ran any other thing but the bash interrupter when executing the file. Then again Apple could have picked something which is useless in following the conventions used in shell scripting.

 

[HenryAZ]

Single user mode boots to a root prompt, and root's shell is still /bin/sh.