Leaving "recovery mode"

[Derek Broughton]

Pete Holsberg wrote:

> Derek Broughton has written on 10/6/2007 11:00 AM:
> 
>> Pete Holsberg wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Broughton pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on
>>>> It works, of course, because "exit" just lets you continue the boot
>>>> process where it was temporarily suspended.
>>> Ah, that's GOOD! :-)
>>>
>>>> In fact, there was a recent thread
>>>> about how to actually _force_ a reboot at this point - and afaik, you
>>>> can't.
>>>>
>>> OK. How about C-A-D?
>>>
>> Beats me - I almost never boot (I hibernate my laptop) and never have
>> used C-A-D to reboot. I would think not, though - the problem the poster
>> was having was that as soon as exiting the single-user shell, the system
>> would go to runlevel 2 - even if he exited using "init 0" or "init 6".
>> Ctrl-alt-del (if set to reboot) would just do "init 6", I would expect.
> 
> I believe I'm the OP and I don't recall stating that as  my problem. I
> had asked how ones gets from the single-user shell that one gets when
> booting in recovery mode into "regular" mode.
> 
As I said, it was a different thread.  The point is that single-user mode is
just a temporary diversion of the regular boot sequence, and simply exiting
the shell continues that process and nothing else seems to change that.
-- 
derek