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. At the boot splash screen type 'e' to edit the boot parameters. Add 'single' for single-user, or N for runlevel N. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
