Woe is me! FC2 -> FC3

[Michael Hipp]

Mike Reinehr wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. I had forgotten you could select runlevel from the grub boot prompt.

Will try this as soon as I get done here at the client's loc.

Michael