Re: Boot normally, but give me a root shell

[fedora]

Hi Rich
what you require comes close to going into (former) runlevel 3:
Select your boot instance in grub2, type e (for edit) and add "3" at the 
end of the line.
Then continue booting.

suomi

On 10/06/2016 11:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Is there a way to get Fedora to boot into a root shell, without
> requiring a password?
>
> NOTE: I'm not interested in "emergency" shells and this is not for
> recovering a system.
>
> I want the (specialized, non-networked) system to boot as normal, all
> the way to multi-user.target, and then drop me to a root shell.
>
> Rich.