> Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command > line (this hit me as well, as I use a number of different runlevels). > Instead, pass "S" to skip just about everything, and start a root shell > (via sulogin), or "1" to do the equivalent of "/sbin/rc single" (that > is, drop the softlevel=boot completely, and add the single character "S" > or "1" after a space). > > An example from my grub.conf: > > title Gentoo, current kernel (single user) > kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 1 > > title Gentoo, current kernel (root shell) > kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 S > > I also have my /etc/inittab set up so that init's runlevels 2-5 go into > rc's various runlevels (on my machine, 2=default, 3=gui, 4=network, > 5=gui-network).
This is possibly an (unreported) bug. Just for S&G I booted with "softlevel=BOOT" on an Openrc and it reports that there is no runlevel BOOT and then basically puts me in single level mode :|, but "softlevel=boot" seems to be ignored. I think it "should" support it... why else would rc-update work with different runlevels it you are not able to use them? Also the man pages for rc-update and rc seem to reflect this. FWIW I usually forgo the runlevels and just use init=/bin/bash because it doesn't prompt for the root password and pretty much the only time i need to boot into single user is when I've forgotten the root password :P -a
