GRUB Single User Mode

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:29:51AM +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:
> mylar wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me how one goes about getting into single user mode via
> >GRUB. Using "LILO" I would specify a  name followed by the word "single"
> >and it would jump right in. But that doesn't work on GRUB. Any ideas ?
> >
> >
> 
> When the grub menu is on the screen, select the line representing the 
> system you want to boot and press 'e' (edit). This should open the grub 
> commands for editing. Move to the kernel line of the boot sequence and hit 
> 'e' again. Append the word 'single' to that line and hit 'enter'. Then 
> press 'b' to boot.
> 
> -- 
> Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
>             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
> E-mail :    nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
> Phone :     +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555

Hmm.  I just select the line, hit "a" to append, type " single" (note
the space), then hit [Enter] and it boots single.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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