How to boot to runlevel 3/init 3 once.

[Tony Arnold]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:00 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> What shall I add to grub at booting to boot, temporarily/one time, init
> 3/runlevel 3, just "init 3" or "3".  I tried both of them but they
> seemed not working still booting to the login page.  TIA

You could select the recovery mode option in the grub menu which will
boot into single user mode. You could then type 'telinit 3' which will
take you to run level 3.

But for what you are trying the recovery mode might be sufficient
anyway.

Regards,
Tony.

-- 
Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>
University of Manchester