From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:36:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A89BF3B.9060807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h6cd3t$9qa$1@ger.gmane.org>
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I used to specify this:
>
> softlevel=boot
>
> in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work
> anymore; it boots right into the "default" runlevel. I think this
> happened after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world
> with it, and also the kernel.)
>
> What can the problem be? What is needed for "softlevel=" selection to
> work?
>
>
>
Try softlevel=single and see if that works. I go to single user using
the command rc single so it should exist and should work from grub too.
Maybe grub has changed its options?
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-17 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-17 20:04 [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-17 20:36 ` Dale [this message]
2009-08-17 20:44 ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-17 20:47 ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-08-17 21:03 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-08-17 23:00 ` Dale
2009-08-18 1:27 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-18 23:11 ` Dan Farrell
2009-08-18 23:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-08-18 23:47 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-08-19 0:05 ` Shawn Haggett
2009-08-19 0:10 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-19 2:55 ` ABCD
2009-08-19 9:55 ` Renat Golubchyk
2009-08-19 21:53 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-19 22:43 ` Sebastian Beßler
2009-08-19 23:06 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-20 14:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2009-08-20 16:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
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