Harm Geerts wrote: > 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
If you just want to prevent a specific daemon from loading, you can also press 'I' when the runlevel starts. This will give you an interactive boot.
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