Usually single is runlevel 1.
While the Grub menu is displayed:
select the linux line
press e to edit
select the line begining with kernel
press e to edit
at the end add a space and the number one as init parameter:
kernel XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1
press escape (back to the lines for linux)
press b to boot
(this modification won't be saved into menu.lst)
David
>Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:03:37 +0530 (IST)
>From: Vineeth Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Help needed!!!!
>
>Hi,
> I have a RH7.2 Linux desktop but my system administrator has the root
>password to my machine. A couple of days back this admin left our company and
>forgot to give anyone the root password of my machine. The new admin doesn't
>really know what to do in this situation. My bootloader is GRUB. For
>machines with lilo bootloader we can login as su by the command "linux
>single". Is there anyway to accomplish the same thing in GRUB?. I would be
>grateful if someone could help me here
>
>Thanks,
>Vineeth.
>
>
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