Preset Grub boot menu

[Douglas Furlong]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 17:01, Will Backman wrote:
> Would it make sense to include preset grub boot menu entries for not
> enforcing and also one for init level 3?  This might make it easier for
> folks who have a bad config or whatever.  If they cannot boot, they
> cannot find the answers.
> 
> -- 
> Will Backman <whb at ceimaine.org>
> Coastal Enterprises, Inc.

Without being funny, if people are unable to hit "a" at the boot menu 
and then append 1 to the kernel line, then i sincerely doubt they will 
be able to fix their problems.

I am not sure if it is possible to append any thing to the kernel that
tells it to work in permissive mode as apposed to enforcing. If you
disable SELinux then it may cause more problems then it's worth.

The easiest way I found was to boot into single user mode, edit
/etc/sysconfig/selinux and edit that line to say I believe permissive.

Then telinit 5 (or reboot, cant remember which) and carried on with the
updates, which fixed the problem I was having.

However, if some one can't work out how to boot in to single user mode
then they are unlikely going to work out how to fix their system.

Soooo, we would be better off with a nice FAQ detailing how to do the
above (using the recommended method).

Well just a thought :)

Dougie