can't go to single user mode

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, inode0 wrote:

> On Jan 11, 2008 12:18 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > i've seen most of that, i was just curious as to where that "single"
> > boot-time option was coming from, since i was pretty sure it wasn't
> > being processed by the kernel anywhere.  i just didn't read down far
> > enough in the man page for "init" -- it's near the bottom under "BOOT
> > FLAGS".  learn something new every day, i guess.
>
> man bootparam
>
> might be interesting reading

oh, trust me, i've been down *that* road before.  i have a number of
kernel patches in the queue that rip out dead kernel options from the
file Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt file.   and that's why i was
confused by the "single" boot parm -- i was sure i didn't remember it
from that file, but i also didn't realize it was a valid "init"
option.

rday
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