when you boot normally type "init 1" More info about run levels. The following table summarizes the User Linux run levels: * 0 System Halt * 1 Single user * 2 Full multi-user mode (Default) * 3-5 Same as 2 * 6 System Reboot -Mike On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > I am trying to get to single user mode on an Ubuntu server, adding > "single" to the end of the kernel line brings me to a "control d" > prompt. How can I get it to boot to a shell instead, so I can set the > root password? > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090415/57ce6a61/attachment-0001.htm