On Wednesday, Mar 30, 2005, at 13:26 US/Central, Rex Nelson wrote:
This is a terribly analog question, but why would you want to?
Because I should be able to. I can under Red Hat/Fedora Core. I can under OS/X, too. On every Unix-like system I've been on, single user mode means a bare-bones, just-enough-to-type-at-the-keyboard mode. Few if any modules are loaded. Being able to boot in such a minimal mode is useful, for example, when you've botched one of your startup scripts or when the module loader incorrectly guesses the module to load for your NIC, which causes the kernel to hang on bootup.
In knoppix I think you can "step" through the loading process and you might be able to CTL-C out of loading the interface.
expert26 works for everything, except the NIC. knoppix26 halts when trying to start up networking. failsafe only boots the 2.4 kernel.
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