On Sunday 21 January 2007 22:10, John covici wrote: > Hi. I was under the impression that I could boot into a shell before > the runlevel default started by adding single to my boot command > line. There is nothing in the single directory and right now when I > say single it goes right to run level 3. > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
The single runlevel is different from what you want. If you want a shell instead of a runlevel you can boot with the init parameter like this: <your_kernel_image> init=/bin/sh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
