On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:18 +0100, Chris G wrote: > I had a problem with my Fedora system at work today which required > that I get to a root console login to fix it. The fault (simply a > network change elsewhere) prevented the system from booting as it > couldn't mount some necessary NFS drives. > > How is one supposed to revert to runlevel 3 (or even 2) to overcome > this sort of problem? Is there a grub/boot parameter one can use to > change the runlevel? > > I had to resort to using an installation CD in rescue mode to change > /etc/inittab, I was then able to boot in runlevel 2, see what was > wrong and fix it (just an /etc/hosts change in the end). > > This seems a rather difficult way to fix what was actually a rather > trivial fault. > Yes, you can do it. Just add the number of the runlevel you want to boot in at the end of the line, something like this should do the trick: kernel /whatever/vmlinuz ro root=/your/hdisk 3 Hope this helps Manuel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
