On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > I used to specify this: > > softlevel=boot > > in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work > anymore; it boots right into the "default" runlevel. I think this happened > after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world with it, and > also the kernel.) > > What can the problem be? What is needed for "softlevel=" selection to work?
According to Wolfram Schlich in bug 213988: "softlevel= as a kernel parameter will be replaced by rc_runlevel= in OpenRC 0.2.2 and higher"