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: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:59:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h6jvct$no7$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0908200723y3be8f72exef9f1797fe7fddc6@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/20/2009 05:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> 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?
>
> According to Wolfram Schlich in bug 213988:
>
> "softlevel= as a kernel parameter will be replaced by rc_runlevel= in OpenRC
> 0.2.2 and higher"
Doesn't work either.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-20 16:59 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
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 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
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