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 1MeAzJ-0001CQ-UA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:59:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 448ECE0329; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20811E0329 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B1766FB9 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:59:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.043 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.043 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.444, 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 fGFsdQpAZ5LU for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:59:37 +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 2304F6715B for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MeAz6-0001on-So for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:59:32 +0200 Received: from athedsl-371722.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.4.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:59:32 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-371722.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:59:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:59:13 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <58965d8a0908200723y3be8f72exef9f1797fe7fddc6@mail.gmail.com> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-371722.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 In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0908200723y3be8f72exef9f1797fe7fddc6@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c056b3ae-e602-4f45-b2d1-5501bf02fb27 X-Archives-Hash: 24df45f131b06a445de2639b0095833b On 08/20/2009 05:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras 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.