On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:13 +0100, Macintyre, Ross A wrote: > I’ve just upgraded a lab of machines to FC5 from FC2. > > In FC2 I could just add ‘single’ to the boot options at the grub > prompt, but when I try this in FC5 it just boots up as normal. > > Am I missing something? > > I read that you might use these additions to the boot prompt: S, s, 1, > single, e. > > None of them work. In what way did you try adding them? Taking FC4 as an example, but the same thing worked on a friend's FC5 box - if I hit the e key to temporarily edit the GRUB menu options before booting, and add a 1 to the end of this line, it works: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda7 acpi=force -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
