Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Willie Wong wrote:
> 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
>    

I had trouble with that a while back to but I think it was fixed.  Of 
course, this may only be true if you updated whatever it is that fixed 
it.  ;-)

I am up to date here as of last night and softlevel=single worked a 
couple weeks ago and has worked for several months.  I guess you could 
always just try it and see which one works.  If one of them doesn't 
work, it needs to be reported I guess.  I would be willing to bet that 
Alan's way will work.  Adding init=/bin/bash always works from my 
experience.  Just keep in mind that you have to reboot when done and 
make sure you are mounted rw instead of ro.

Dale

:-)  :-)