Woe is me! FC2 -> FC3

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 02:50 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > > Can you boot into single user mode?
> >
> > Haven't tried. How best to do that given that it's not coming up all the
> > way?
>
> You should be able to edit the grub entry to specify a runlevel, kinda
> like with doing 'linux single' for lilo.

If you are using grub, when you are presented with the boot menu:

1) press the letter 'e' to enter edit mode,
2) cursor down to the kernel line and add the word 'single' to the end of the 
line (separated with a space), i.e.,
 kernel          /vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686 root=/dev/hda7 ro single
3) (my memory is fuzzy at this point) press <return>, <escape> or something (I 
think it's displayed) to exit edit mode, and then,
4) press 'b' to boot.

This will put you into single user mode, i.e., run level 1.

HTH

Mike

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