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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user |
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>>> maintenance mode. How do I do that? |
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>> At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. |
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>> Press "e" |
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>> Move cursor to the "kernel" line |
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>> Press "e" |
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>> Move cursor to the end of the line. Append " 1" or " single" |
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> Uh, I thought that, per discussions a few weeks ago, we've concluded |
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> that in Gentoo that will still land you in the default runlevel. |
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> Instead you should append |
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> softlevel=single |
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> to the end of the line, and continue from hereon. |
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>> Press<enter> |
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>> Press "b" |
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> Cheers, |
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> W |
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I had trouble with that a while back to but I think it was fixed. Of |
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course, this may only be true if you updated whatever it is that fixed |
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it. ;-) |
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I am up to date here as of last night and softlevel=single worked a |
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couple weeks ago and has worked for several months. I guess you could |
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always just try it and see which one works. If one of them doesn't |
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work, it needs to be reported I guess. I would be willing to bet that |
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Alan's way will work. Adding init=/bin/bash always works from my |
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experience. Just keep in mind that you have to reboot when done and |
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make sure you are mounted rw instead of ro. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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