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Old 03-Jul-2009, 20:03
eric_a_hall eric_a_hall is offline
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Default can't boot to single user

No idea why this happens but on a couple of systems I'm unable to boot into single user, either as runlevel S or runlevel 1. This is true for the Failsafe image and the regular system image alike.

The major symptom is that it seems the initrd image is started and then the system hangs when it tries to transfer control to the inittab.

I am able to boot into the system with runlevel 2 or higher. I am also able to boot into the single-user rescue DVD image.

Anybody got any ideas on this?

Alternatively, can anyone tell me how to add the rescue DVD boot image to my secondary IDE drive so that I have a guaranteed way into the system?
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