Albert Hopkins wrote: >> Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command >> line (this hit me as well, as I use a number of different runlevels). >> Instead, pass "S" to skip just about everything, and start a root shell >> (via sulogin), or "1" to do the equivalent of "/sbin/rc single" (that >> is, drop the softlevel=boot completely, and add the single character "S" >> or "1" after a space). >> >> An example from my grub.conf: >> >> title Gentoo, current kernel (single user) >> kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 1 >> >> title Gentoo, current kernel (root shell) >> kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 S >> >> I also have my /etc/inittab set up so that init's runlevels 2-5 go into >> rc's various runlevels (on my machine, 2=default, 3=gui, 4=network, >> 5=gui-network). >> > > This is possibly an (unreported) bug. > > Just for S&G I booted with "softlevel=BOOT" on an Openrc and it reports > that there is no runlevel BOOT and then basically puts me in single > level mode :|, but "softlevel=boot" seems to be ignored. I think it > "should" support it... why else would rc-update work with different > runlevels it you are not able to use them? Also the man pages for > rc-update and rc seem to reflect this. > > FWIW I usually forgo the runlevels and just use init=/bin/bash because > it doesn't prompt for the root password and pretty much the only time i > need to boot into single user is when I've forgotten the root > password :P > > -a > > >
I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. Who would want to put that option in grub and make it easy for someone to hack in? I did try softlevel=single a bit ago and it booted all the way but with no GUI. It went waaaay past single tho. rc-status reported it was in single user mode but it wasn't. Console #2 and up was working but X didn't start. Pretty darn weird. :/ Who's going to open the can of Raid? Dale :-) :-)
