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Old 10-05-2006, 11:30 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by pervitizm
Coontie, I couldn't get this to work for me. I can't seem to get it to boot up in single user mode. Is there something missing from this step?
I tried it and it worked---be sure to have a space before the "s"
The line in question might look like this:

.....vmlinuzxxx root=/dev/zzzz s

What you are doing here is passing instructions to the kernel---each one needs to be "delimited" with a space
 
  


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