On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > ok, i'm confused ... wouldn't the only available runlevel options on > > the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf be precisely those for the "init" > > command, and the ones that you could add manually while at the grub > > menu early in the boot process? > > > > according to "man init", that would include "1", "s" or "S", but i > > don't see the word "single" anywhere there. and i just tested that by > > duplicating the default stanza in grub.conf, renaming the title, and > > just adding "1" to the end of the kernel line. selecting that option > > from the boot-time grub menu takes me to single-user mode, just as i > > expected. > > > > unless i'm misreading the actual problem here. > > > > rday > There a few other keywords you can pass the kernel that affect run > level. Some are processed by the kernel itself, and some are handled > by the scripts in the initrd. One that comes in handy when things > are really broken is "init=/bin/bash". This skips init completely, > going directly to a bash shell. (You can use other shells.) Just > keep in mind that only the root file system will be mounted, and it > will probably be mounted read only when you boot this way. i've seen most of that, i was just curious as to where that "single" boot-time option was coming from, since i was pretty sure it wasn't being processed by the kernel anywhere. i just didn't read down far enough in the man page for "init" -- it's near the bottom under "BOOT FLAGS". learn something new every day, i guess. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
