----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Putnam" <reader@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:13 PM Subject: [grub] How to boot to single mode or runlevel 1 > Scanning thru the texi documentation of grub I'm not finding hits on > emergence single runlevel 1 or the like. > I'm used to lilo where: > boot> linux 1 > is enough to boot up to runlevel 1 (unless system is impaired) > > How does one do that with grub? > I've done it once before and found a quick link to doing it for you... when the grub menu comes pres 'e' on the kernel which u want 2 boot and then on the kernel=/boot/kernel.img line just add single at the end. i.e. kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi vga=794 single this will initate the single user mode. HTH, -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list