F10 Preview - single user mode, small glitch

[John5342]

man telinit reveals that runlevel "1" is single user mode and "S" is also
single user mode but it does not shut down the various services first. Of
course on first boot there are no services running so I would imagine there
is no real difference between the two. "single" is presumably an alias for
either "1" or "S" but my quick search doesnt throw anything up. As for the
other runlevels (1-6) /etc/inittab describes the general purpose of them.

Hope thats the info you were looking for.

2008/11/11 G.Wolfe Woodbury <ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us>

> GRUB command line parameter "S1" used to bring on single user mode
> (according to my reporter) but things have changed (probably in the
> kernel) so that "single" is required to get things right.
>
> Me, I always used "S" or "single" from the first introduction of LILO
> and GRUB, so this is a little confused sounding to me.
>
> Can someone explain the details of the "S", "1", "3", "5" and "single"
> kernel parameters behaviour?
>
> AIUI, they are passed to "init" to set the initial state of the system,
> and "single" is a synonym for "S" and that "S" and "1" are equivalent.
>
> TIA
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> Wolfe
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