At 18:31 2002/07/12 -0400, you wrote: >I've never thought about this but what if you are using grub?
Use the arrow keys to select the kernel image you want to start, then hit "e" for edit and you jump to a screen typically with two or three lines of info (for root fs, kernel and initrd), select the kernel line and hit "e" again to edit the line, add the option "single" (or "1" I guess, although I've never used that) to the list of boot parameters. Then just hit "b" to boot the modified config. This is perhaps more cumbersome than Lilo, but it has the distinct advantage that if, in a moment of weakness, you stuck a bad boot param into your grub.conf file (I seem to remember having told Lilo to append mem=2014m in once when I actually meant 1024...), you can edit it out using the same method. Aside to the original poster: The "reboot" part is quite correct, but I'm not sure if anyone bothered to mention that it's generally possible to do a clean reboot (i.e. a proper shutdown and restart through software) without the root password. If you're starting a GUI automatically you can typically reboot the machine from one of the menu options presented at the logon screen. In text mode if you simply hit CTRL+ALT+DEL it will usually be intercepted by the OS and execute the command "shutdown -r now" (i.e. perform a reboot through software). This will avoid any potential filesystem corruption. p.s. I am currently trying out a new version of Eudora (mail user agent for Windows) which hasn't downloaded it's registration key yet and thinks it's operating as advertising supported software. I apologize if it tacked some kind of add onto this message. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
