From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Md8Rg-0002qp-AK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:04:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9C3CE04AF; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A985FE04AF for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5646F65007 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:04:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.056 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.056 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.457, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1qtbsNKteJb9 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DE066883 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Md8RO-0008QU-OZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:04:26 +0200 Received: from athedsl-391708.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.82.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:04:26 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-391708.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:04:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:04:15 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-391708.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090815 Thunderbird/3.0b3 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4f225636-3a31-4b08-9766-327cf7a4b9bc X-Archives-Hash: 7485d2a3e28e1950ff691f163f156721 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?