Thanks for the confirmation, Jeremy...didn't want to actually have to reboot the system to find out. for the occasional need to boot into runlevel 3, a is fine. Incidentally, since it was noted that remote access is possible, one could su to root and issue "init 3" in order to get the console back to text. On 17 Jul 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 08:57, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Mike Burger wrote: > > > > > I don't think it's "s"...I'd have to actually reboot to find the actual > > > option from the Grub boot screen...but I'm fairly sure it's "A", not "S". > > > It's the option that lets you modify the boot options. > > > > "e" for "edit" lets you modify boot options at the grub prompt. > > Yeah, but it's easier to type 'a' to append options. When you do E for > edit there are a few other keystrokes necessary and it's a bit > confusing. A for append is much simpler; you just add 'single' (or > simply 's') to the end of the boot options line. > > --Jeremy > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list