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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:36:11 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  I lost the ability to boot into single user
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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

:-)  :-)