rl5 to rl1 makes init wig out

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

I never change runlevels manually so I wonder if I screwed up... I used 
'telinit 1' to try to switch to single user mode to use hdparm and init 
started consuming all my resources and stopped responding to changes in 
runlevel (e.g., I could not shutdown).

Isn't it possible to change run levels without a reboot?  What did I do wrong?

I'm using an old 486/66 running 6.2.

-Alan
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