[arch] can't boot in single user mode using mkinitcpio

[Vinay S Shastry]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 23:49, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 7/6/06, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> >> Like the subject says, I'm no longer able to boot into single-user mode
> >> after switching to use the mkinitcpio image (kernel26.img).  It's
> >> definitely not an issue with the kernel, though, or with my grub
> >> settings, because switching back to initrd26.img fixes the problem.
> >>
> >> For whatever reason, the boot process goes right into init level 3, and
> >> I don't get the prompt to enter the root password for single-user mode.
> >>
To make it work, you can just specify the runlevel number instead of "single"
i.e. /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/blah 1

(1 is single user)

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Vinay S Shastry