[Nottingham] Single User Mode

[Peter Chang]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Graeme Fowler wrote:

> 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

Isn't it easier to hit "a" for append and type "1" or "single", then hit
return?

Peter




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