On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 07:03 +0200, fedora wrote: > what you require comes close to going into (former) runlevel 3: > Select your boot instance in grub2, type e (for edit) and add "3" at > the end of the line. Then continue booting. I'd say what he asked for would have been achieved with run level one (otherwise known as single), not three. Run level three requires a password, run level one does not. If you can still boot into run level one, then typing a numeral one, instead of 3, as you've suggested, ought to work. The old run level one (whatever they call it, these days), was a basic, isolated from the network, text-only, login. But I haven't tried that on a modern system, to see whether it boots up similarly, or into a newer special login. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx