On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:43:50AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: > Well, my distro (openSuSE) generates a special entry for "rescue" > mode, too. But it rescues me into run level 5. "init 3" will, > indeed, drop me back to multi-user and "init 1" back to single user, > but without a reboot, various dinkleberries were an interference. (I > forget why -- perhaps a misperception. I'm not at home right now.)
Well runlevels and their meanings are a user space issue. 1 is only single user by tradition, it doesn't have to be. Really not something a boot loader can know or care about. > I have learned that in the grub2 menu mode, you can press "e" and all > of a sudden you can edit the command line. It seems my request boils > down to some documentation. In the menu code so when I'm looking at > the menu, there should be something to indicate that I can press "e" > and edit the line to include a "1" at the end of the line. I know > that theoretically every operating system can have command line > operands that are completely different. In practicality, however, > they are 99.99% UNIX derivatives so pressing five keys to get to > single user mode ought not be a big issue: e<enter><space>1<enter> > -- right? Not at home to try…. Hmm, I thought it was right on the screen that e was edit. I guess if you use a graphical menu it might not be there. And of course you ahve to hit control-x to boot your custom entry as far as I remember. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
