050831 Bert Buchholz wrote: > On Wed 31.08 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: >> Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, >> ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? > You can always do that by appending init=/bin/sh to the kernel line
This gets the same result as 'append="emergency"', ie it stops before inittab & asks for the root password; afterwards, it exits into the regular start-up process (thanx to the other user who also suggested this). The other suggestion -- 'append="softlevel=single"' -- doesn't work (no do 'S' or '1'): it says it can't find such a runlevel. It looks as if this is a typically elegant Gentoo solution, but unfortunately one which has not been documented properly anywhere. Anyway, the conclusion is that for emergencies have an entry which contains 'append="emergency"'; also, have a rescue diskette (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
