How do I get into runlevel 1?

[RobinQi]

This probably has been asked many times, if yes I apologize and please someone point me to the old post.

If my FC14 would not boot. And I didn't setup the boot menu, How do I get into run level 1?

[giulix]

What do you mean you didn't setup the boot menu? If you're booting Fedora, you must be able to get to the grub menu, at least (you may have to press Esc a few times during the boot sequence). If that's the case, highlight your kernel entry and then press `a', add a space and the number `1' to the current line and press Enter to boot into single user mode (runlevel 1)

[RobinQi]

I meant I didn't setup to show the Grub Menu. Would press Esc get me the menu? Let me try that tonight.

[smr54]

Yes, as soon as the machine starts booting and gets past the BIOS screen, hit Esc, or, I believe any other key--you can use F8 like you would in Windows--to get the grub menu to display.

I would recommend once you have booted up, you change the grub default time out from 0 to 3.

[RobinQi]

Thx! I shall try that tonight.

[v0m17]

highlight your kernel entry and then press `a', add a space and the number `1' to the current line and press Enter to boot into single user mode (runlevel 1)

I never heard,read or saw that and when I press a at grub menu nothing happens,so I thought I was reading wrong and pressed e and added [space]1 after the kernel,but that changed nothing and I booted into X.

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I guess some can hit the up arrow and then hammering on "i" to get to interactive mode and skipping X,whatever its process's name is.
It doesn´t work on this FC14 but works on the FC13 I have at home and prolly most other.

[giulix]

There are two different editing levels at which you're allowed to modify the kernel boot parameters: One is the one already described, where you press Esc a few times during boot and you are presented with the grub menu from which you can select which kernel you want to boot (that is, if you have more than one kernel installed, of course; otherwise you'll be presented with a single entry). If you press 'a' at this point (this is true for a fully updated F14), you'll be given the opportunity to append to the kernel line: The second level is entered if you press 'e' instead of 'a'. If you do that, grub will present another menu from which you can select the 'root' entry, the 'kernel' entry or the 'initrd' entry. You should be able to enter the [space] 1 parameter in this mode too. The important thing to remember here is to apply the change, press Return and boot the kernel right away, as pressing Esc or, possibly (not sure), moving around the menu causes your modification to be discarded

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I tested it: pressing 'e', selecting the kernel line, pressing 'e' again and appending [space]1 won't work

[pforsell]

Press 'a' to edit kernel parameters, go to end of line and add a space and a '1' then press enter.

[v0m17]

It does not work for me however I found out that by by putting nv as device in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
it fails on starting X which is just what I want.

Happy weekend.