[Nottingham] Single User Mode

[Graeme Fowler]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Incandescant  wrote:
> I've oft read on yon mailing list of starting up in single user mode and
> running fsck. However I've not been able to find out how you might do this?

Depending on bootloader:

1. LILO
If graphical, hit CTRL-X to get text menu
TAB to see what your default target is
Type "<target> single" and hit return

2. GRUB
Wait for menu
highlight using arrow keys the target
hit "e" for "edit"
highlight the "kernel=" line
hit "e"
type " single" on the end
hit return
hit "b" for "boot"

In either case, you could actually give yerself a selectable target of 
"single" by cloning a valid target and appending "single" to the "kernel=" 
line, so you've always got it handy.

I suspect you don't then need telling how to run fsck? :p

Graeme