From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:10:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h6fft1$9rs$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090818181150.3a2e5463@napoleon.spore.ath.cx>
On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300
> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote:
>>> I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While
>>> init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option.
>>
>> I filed a bug for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281850
>>
>
> In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a
> bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of
> trouble a few times.
The real problem is that I can't boot the box into a VM anymore. On
this machine, I have three grub entries: "softlevel=native",
"softlevel=vmware" and "softlevel=xen", each booting a suitable kernel
and moving the right xorg.conf into /etc/X11. That functionality is
lost and is a major problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-19 0:10 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
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 [this message]
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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