If that works, you then connect it to another Mac using a Firewire cable, and the other Mac will then see your iMac exactly the same as an external Firewire disk drive. If your 'broken imac' has FireWire, have you tried starting it up in Firewire Target Disk mode? Is it a Mac? Something else? What exactly? Is it a graphics chip malfunction? A display malfunction (broken screen)? Something else?Īlso please identify your server. Please explain exactly why you can't use the GUI. Instead of describing your proposed solution, could you please describe the problem you have, with details?įor example, exactly what Mac model is exhibiting the problem? All you've mentioned so far is 'my broken imac', which tells us nothing about what model it is, what features it has, what the OS version is, etc. The presence of a command line won't magically make those features start working. The system has to get farther in its normal startup sequence before those features become available. Single user mode is intentionally designed to not start most system services.

The reason some features don't work in single user mode is because the services (daemons or other code) that provide those features haven't been started yet. The command line is always present and available, whether the system is in single user mode or not. Single user mode is not the same as the command line.

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