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Harm Geerts wrote: |
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> On Sunday 21 January 2007 22:10, John covici wrote: |
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>> Hi. I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before |
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>> the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command |
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>> line. There is nothing in the single directory and right now when I |
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>> say single it goes right to run level 3. |
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>> Any assistance would be appreciated. |
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> The single runlevel is different from what you want. |
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> If you want a shell instead of a runlevel you can boot with the init parameter |
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> like this: |
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> <your_kernel_image> init=/bin/sh |
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If you just want to prevent a specific daemon from loading, you can also |
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press 'I' when the runlevel starts. This will give you an interactive boot. |
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