Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Hastie
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:07:28 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Append softlevel=single to kernel boot parameters. Do you know what the difference is, if any, between that and bootlevel? -- Ian. EOM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label = Single root = /dev/hda3 append=S read-only but it boots to

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-08-31 09:25:48 -0400 (Wed, Aug), Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label = Single

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Bert Buchholz
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 (for example) to the kernel line when booting, so when lilo comes up, you append this text to the

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:25:48 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? Yes. Append softlevel=single to kernel boot parameters. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
050831 Mariusz P?kala wrote: On 2005-08-31 09:25:48 -0400 (Wed, Aug), Philip Webb wrote: Is it still possible to boot into 'single' mode, ie directly into a no-login root system (for emergencies) ? The kernel dox suggest this should work in Lilo image = /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
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',