From: dharatz@informatik.uni-rostock.de (Dirk Haratz) Subject: Re: Single-user mode (at boot-time?) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 16:42:36 GMT
Raghunath K Rao (thssrkr@iitmax.iit.edu) wrote:
| Does anyone know how to go single-user at boot-time? I know
| that shutdown -i (?) or just removing /etc/inittab should do it.
| But what if there is a problem with the machine and it does not
| come up on multi-user and I need to go single-user without being
| able to access the filesystem or logging in? So is there a way
| of telling the computer at boot-time to go runlevel 1?
If you are using lilo: Enable the boot prompt by pressing shift, ctrl or alt
and add to your bootimage single, e.g.
LILO boot: vmlinux single
That's it.
Dirk.