Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

> Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command
> line (this hit me as well, as I use a number of different runlevels).
> Instead, pass "S" to skip just about everything, and start a root shell
> (via sulogin), or "1" to do the equivalent of "/sbin/rc single" (that
> is, drop the softlevel=boot completely, and add the single character "S"
> or "1" after a space).
> 
> An example from my grub.conf:
> 
>     title    Gentoo, current kernel (single user)
>     kernel   (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 1
> 
>     title    Gentoo, current kernel (root shell)
>     kernel   (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 S
> 
> I also have my /etc/inittab set up so that init's runlevels 2-5 go into
> rc's various runlevels (on my machine, 2=default, 3=gui, 4=network,
> 5=gui-network).

This is possibly an (unreported) bug.

Just for S&G I booted with "softlevel=BOOT" on an Openrc and it reports
that there is no runlevel BOOT and then basically puts me in single
level mode :|, but "softlevel=boot" seems to be ignored.  I think it
"should" support it... why else would rc-update work with different
runlevels it you are not able to use them?  Also the man pages for
rc-update and rc seem to reflect this.

FWIW I usually forgo the runlevels and just use init=/bin/bash because
it doesn't prompt for the root password and pretty much the only time i
need to boot into single user is when I've forgotten the root
password :P

-a