Matt Harrison wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 02:43:42PM -0400, Peter Wood wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for both replies.
The thing that bugs me about the softlevel option is that the computer
apparently enters into the default runlevel first before switching to
single. If I do not want to have any of the services running, why would
I have to start and stop them all (which might take quite a bit of time
considering a computer that is set up for networking via dhcp, but
booting up in an environment where there is no network connection.
Is the real_init option on the kernel line no longer working?
I guess I'll go with the busybox solution.
Of course I forgot it goes runlevel 3 -> runlevel 1. It serves my purposes but
maybe not yours.
Let me know if the bb solution works, i'm interested :)
best of luck
Matt Harrison
Ok, I tried the init=/bin/bb solution. It didn't work. Which is probably
related to the fact that I am using an initramfs. If I use
real_init=/bin/bb, things work howvever. Provided you remount your root
filesystem with read/write enabled, this gives you the option to do any
maintenance work and then reboot.
I guess, if real_init + runlevel ever worked, it does not do any more.
real_init takes a command as an argument, not the name of a runlevel.
Best,
Peter
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Germanic & Slavic Studies
University of Waterloo
Canada
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