On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:55:33PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Under Fedora, one can append a "s" to the end of grub to signify single
> user runlevel, hence dropping into the root shell. Is there any way to
> do this in Gentoo? I remember the last time I tried this on another box,
> it didn't work. (but there's a reference on the list that says it
> works??)

I am pretty sure the appended item is the word `single'

as in, edit your boot command to have the word single following the
kernel... something like

   kernel (hd1,0)/linux2.6.9 root=/dev/hdb1 single

 
> The other thing would be,  How can one use runlevels to signify whether
> or not we want to boot into "nonetwork" or "default".

man init

basically you change the entry in /etc/inittab that says

     id:3:initdefault:

to whatever pleases you. 

W

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