Booting in interactive mode

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon May 24 19:25:53 UTC 2004


On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:05:16AM -0500, Marc Mouries wrote:
> I am stuck at the boot at the "Checking new hardware" message
> and would like to boot in interactive mode.
> Is it possible to specify to boot in interactive mode
> in the boot command line argument ?

Not sure if you can do that from the kernel command line. But you can hit I
right as the init scripts start to go. Alternately, you can boot into single
user mode (the command-line argument of '1') and then run '/sbin/chkconfig
kudzu off' to disable the program which does the new hardware check.

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