Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:59:46
Message-Id:	`h6jvct$no7$1@ger.gmane.org`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user by Paul Hartman

1	On 08/20/2009 05:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
2	> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3	>> I used to specify this:
4	>>
5	>> softlevel=boot
6	>>
7	>> in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work
8	>> anymore; it boots right into the "default" runlevel. I think this happened
9	>> after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world with it, and
10	>> also the kernel.)
11	>>
12	>> What can the problem be? What is needed for "softlevel=" selection to work?
13	>
14	> According to Wolfram Schlich in bug 213988:
15	>
16	> "softlevel= as a kernel parameter will be replaced by rc_runlevel= in OpenRC
17	> 0.2.2 and higher"
18
19	Doesn't work either.