From: Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:22:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100503162232.GA21314@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005031656.04901.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user
> > maintenance mode. How do I do that?
>
> At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot.
> Press "e"
> Move cursor to the "kernel" line
> Press "e"
> Move cursor to the end of the line. Append " 1" or " single"
Uh, I thought that, per discussions a few weeks ago, we've concluded
that in Gentoo that will still land you in the default runlevel.
Instead you should append
softlevel=single
to the end of the line, and continue from hereon.
> Press <enter>
> Press "b"
>
Cheers,
W
--
Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-03 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-03 13:31 [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:40 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-05-03 13:44 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:57 ` Philip Webb
2010-05-03 14:10 ` Dale
2010-05-03 20:13 ` CJoeB
2010-05-03 22:53 ` Dale
2010-05-03 14:26 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-04 9:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-03 13:41 ` Indexer
2010-05-03 13:47 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:58 ` Indexer
2010-05-03 14:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 14:30 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 14:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 15:06 ` KH
2010-05-03 15:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 16:22 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2010-05-03 16:41 ` Dale
2010-05-03 14:56 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-05-03 14:07 ` Dale
2010-05-03 13:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2010-05-03 13:49 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 14:40 ` Remy Blank
2010-05-03 15:09 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-05-03 16:04 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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