I am not sure what the question is. But if you want into the mode<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
where there is no X windows or other things in a root terminal type init<br>3 and you will for sure be in a single user mode, I think.<br><br>Karl<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>--<br><br> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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<br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Runlevel 3 is not single user mode. Runlevel 1 is single user mode.<br>Runlevel 3 is a "text version" of Runlevel 5.
<br><br>I found this rater informative for clarification purposes.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel</a><br><br>~af<br><br>