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Re: Boot RH40 in single user mode?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Molina)
Sun Nov 24 17:27:37 1996

Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:26:01 -0600
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From: Thomas Molina <tmolina@probe.net>
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At 02:44 PM 11/24/96 -0700, you wrote:
>
>On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Vikram Bajaj wrote:
>
>> How do I boot Red Hat 4.0 AXP in single user mode?
>> 
>> I've "upgraded" the libc on my system, and now login reports memory
>> violations.  I'd like to login, download rpms, make a new install.
>
>at boot: prompt just type
>linux single
>
>if linux is the name of the lilo option.
>
>Todd
>toddw@cyberhighway.net

The other possibility is type:

init 1
or
init single

at a prompt, assuming you are superuser.


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