On Monday 03 May 2010 17:06:19 KH wrote: > Am 03.05.2010 16:56, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > On Monday 03 May 2010 16:30:53 Colleen Beamer wrote: > [...] > > >> I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user > >> maintenance mode. How do I do that? > > > > At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. > > Press "e" > > Move cursor to the "kernel" line > > Press "e" > > Move cursor to the end of the line. Append " 1" or " single" > > Press<enter> > > Press "b" > > > > This will load the kernel and run a modified start-up sequence (not the > > regular init command). You get a root shell which is quite limited but > > usually adequate for repairing broken system. > > > > In a way, it's very similar to booting into a LiveCD without having to go > > and find the CD first > > Hi, > > and again I learnd something I didn't know, jet. > > Anyway I also would try to follow Dales advise with pressing "i" during > boot.
There's all kinds of neat tricks you can do when booting or starting up. grub passes parameters and options to the kernel just like your shell passes parameters and options to a program you start. There's docs about it in /usr/src/linux/Documentation but be warned - they are written by kernel devs and most of them seem to assume the reader also knows as much as a kernel dev. So it can be hard going sometimes. A neat trick I use often is to append "init=/bin/bash" to the grub line. This runs bash after the kernel is loaded, not the usual init. You can't logout as normal though - try it and see :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
