Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:23:05
Message-Id:	`58965d8a0908200723y3be8f72exef9f1797fe7fddc6@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user by Nikos Chantziaras

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

Subject	Author
[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user	Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>