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From: "Iván Pérez Domínguez" <ivanperezdominguez@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: single command line argument not working on boot
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:09:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B3E492.8000006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701212248.34066.harmgeerts@home.nl>

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Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Sunday 21 January 2007 22:10, John covici wrote:
>> Hi.  I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before
>> the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command
>> line.  There is nothing in the single directory and right now when I
>> say single it goes right to run level 3.
>>
>> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> The single runlevel is different from what you want.
> 
> If you want a shell instead of a runlevel you can boot with the init parameter 
> like this:
> <your_kernel_image> init=/bin/sh

If you just want to prevent a specific daemon from loading, you can also
press 'I' when the runlevel starts. This will give you an interactive boot.

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-21 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-21 21:10 [gentoo-user] single command line argument not working on boot John covici
2007-01-21 21:30 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2007-01-21 22:29   ` John covici
2007-01-21 21:48 ` Harm Geerts
2007-01-21 22:09   ` Iván Pérez Domínguez [this message]

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