5. Re: single user mode (Hans Henry von Tresckow)

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday, January 08, 2011, Brian Wootton wrote:
> Tried both of these - no good - whatever should happen just gets 
> trampled over by the
> full system boot into multi-user mode.
>    All the manual entries say that 'telinit 1' is the way to do it, but 
> all that does is bring up the
> KDE default login screen (with the dots in the middle) and sit there 
> forever - maybe I should
> submit a bug report?
> I'm running on an amd 64bit  based machine.

I'm running an AMD64 machine and haven't had any problems with that.

Are you getting a grub menu?   Then either the recovery mode or using 'single' 
or '1' on the kernel line of the boot should do it.   I think something else 
is happening on your machine when you say "it is overridden by the full boot'.   

Don't know what that means.