change runlevel at boot time not working

[Whil Hentzen]

> > The RH9 manual (the best doc I can find) says to go to the Graphical GRUB
> > boot loader screen, type e to edit it, arrow down to the kernel line,
> > type e to edit it, at the prompt, type the number of the runlevel (e.g.
> > 3), press Enter to get back to the GRUB screen, type b to boot.
>
> that would be **append** 3 to the end of that line, not replace the
> entire line.  might that be what's happening here?

Yup, I was appending (I had almost thought of replacing, but, naw, that 
couldn't be it!). But I was missing a space. 

Works fine, lasts a long, long time!

Thanks for the suggestion.

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