Changing Run levels

[Jack Bowling]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:26:50AM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:19:53 -0400, Ben Steeves <bcs at metacon.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> >Assuming you're using GRUB, you just:
> >
> >1) From the main screen, highlight the kernel you want to boot and press
> >'e'.
> >2) Highlight the line starting with 'kernel' (the second line in most
> >default stanzas), and press 'e' again.
> >3) Append a '1', '3', or '5' to the line, depending on what run-mode you
> >want, and hit enter.
> >4) Press 'b' to boot from the altered stanza.
> >
> 
> 
> That's exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks.  I have not had to do this 
> in GRUB before so I really needed to know how.

If it is truly just a one-off, then instead of hitting "e" at the grub
menu, hit "a" instead and then add 3 to the end of the line. "a" == "append
to the kernel line" which is what you want to do here.


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Jack Bowling
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