Mike, The access is from a WinME box. I have no idea how to su to root and issue "init 3". Help me out. Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of >Mike Burger >Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:55 AM >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: hang on start > > >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 -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
