Boot my Gen 4 VPS into single-user mode
When you can't access your server using normal methods like SSH or the control panel (WHM/cPanel or Plesk), you may be able to boot into single-user mode using your Recovery Console.
- Go to your GoDaddy product page and select Manage for your server.
- Select the Server Actions dropdown menu, and then Recovery Console.
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Send Ctrl+Alt+Delete through the console.
- If you see a selectable menu: Select through the menu to send Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
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If you don't see a selectable menu and you're using:
- Mac: Select the focus of the console and then select Ctrl+Option+Cmd+Delete.
- Windows: You must pass Ctrl+Alt+Delete through your browser's Developer Tools.
- In the Recovery Console, the GRUB menu should quickly appear in the SPICE window. Stop the boot process by selecting the focus of the window and selecting Esc.
- Select the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate to the entry you wish to edit, and select the E key to edit the GRUB entry (this is not persistent).
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In the line that starts with
linux
orlinux16
, replacero
withrw init=/sysroot/bin/bash
.
Required: For Ubuntu servers, updatero
torw
in the same place butinit=/bin/bash
(no sysroot) should be added instead and it must be added to the end of the line after any other kernel commands. - Remove any param for
console=
. - Select Ctrl+X.
- At the prompt, start a new shell with the correct root with
chroot /sysroot
(unless on Ubuntu).
Once in single-user-mode, you can change the root password, enable direct root SSH access, delete files or disable the firewall. When you’re ready to boot into multi-user mode, you can use reboot –f
.