9 May
2017
9 May
'17
4:31 p.m.
All right, I'm really digging deep, but I thought there was a text prompt that you could enable that was something like: Type control-d to do a normal startup or enter root password for single user mode and it then waited there for a predetermined time then resumed booting to NextSTEP if you did nothing. Mind you, that could just be the old Tandy Xenix prompt and I'm misremembering the actual steps.
I've never seen one that didn't just boot into NeXTSTEP. Dead NVRAM? > Or is it actually booting up into single-user mode by default? in which case simply hitting ^D should get you past that, but it should do that automatically.