Jeremy, I tried the 'a' and 's' and it gave me a 'kernel panic: no init found. try passing init=option to kernel. I put 'init=3 at the end of the kernel line and booted. The script rolled by on the screen and set the boot level to 5. No solution yet. I'd sure like to boot to level 3. Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of >Jeremy Portzer >Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:08 AM >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: hang on start > > >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 > >-- >/-------------------------------------------------- >-------------------\ >| Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx >trilug.org/~jeremy | >| GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 >6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | >\-------------------------------------------------- >-------------------/ > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list