getting rootshell without logging in

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 06:38:11PM +0100, Jan Torben Heuer wrote:
> A friend of mine had some hardware problems so we tried to boot grub with
> acpi=off manually.
> 
> I don't remember exactly WHAT he did and in which order, but he ended up
> with a rootshell without logging in (no x, no networking, looked like
> initlevel=S)
> 
> Does anyone know what could be happened? Andif it is a bug or feature(tm) ?

This is a feature.  The simplest way to get it is to choose the 'Ubuntu
... (recovery mode)' option in the boot menu.  The low-level way of
doing that is adding 'single' to the kernel command line.

Marius Gedminas
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