[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/20/2009 05:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-19 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Am Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:47:15 -0400 schrieb ABCD en.a...@gmail.com: 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). Is this documented somewhere? I'm asking because I have no problem with booting into

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/19/2009 12:55 PM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Am Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:47:15 -0400 schrieb ABCDen.a...@gmail.com: 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). Is this documented somewhere? I'm asking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: On 08/19/2009 12:55 PM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Am Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:47:15 -0400 schrieb ABCDen.a...@gmail.com: 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). Is this

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/20/2009 01:43 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: On 08/19/2009 12:55 PM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Am Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:47:15 -0400 schrieb ABCDen.a...@gmail.com: Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command line (this hit me as well, as I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. I filed a bug for it:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 01:11:50 Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of trouble a few times. Wait until some bastard runs mv /bin/bash /bin/bash.gotcha then you try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 09:17:30 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of trouble a few times. Wait until some

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. I filed a bug

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-17 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think this happened after I upgraded to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-17 Thread Dale
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

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. I filed a bug for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281850