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 1MdbLb-0003vH-2d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:56:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 071ACE0465; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D21F3E0465 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7860867033 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:56:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.969 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.969 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.370, 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 m3uI+OQ9YaHL for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:56:11 +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 5045C66EF2 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:56:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MdbLJ-0007a4-KA for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:56:05 +0200 Received: from pool-173-71-218-206.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([173.71.218.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:56:05 +0200 Received: from en.ABCD by pool-173-71-218-206.clppva.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:56:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: ABCD Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:55:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4A89BF3B.9060807@gmail.com> <1250543011.22959.41.camel@centar.nbk> <4A89E106.3080807@gmail.com> <20090818181150.3a2e5463@napoleon.spore.ath.cx> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-71-218-206.clppva.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090702) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 249c0cdb-9b96-45ad-a5b6-293621be8a82 X-Archives-Hash: 641f7bd1e37cf3794a69b62086ff8e38 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 >> Nikos Chantziaras 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. > What I believe you are supposed to do now is edit /etc/inittab, changing the commands to run at init runlevels 2-5 to match the rc runlevel that you want to enter. Then you can pass the proper number on the kernel command line. - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqLaa8ACgkQOypDUo0oQOrc/gCgzZI7V9JGHhZmJogBttlLn2m7 cRoAn1bSwcnmb1KcmqeGqf0VrUdQk9IY =GdBT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----