How to start "init 3" at boot

[Steven Stern]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Arthur,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
>> as far as I remember i's just a matter of adding '3' as a parameter
>> to the
>> kernel in grub on boot
> 
> IIRC on FC3 when the bootloader 'grub" popup at start;
> 
> - press "e"
> - highlight the line which needed to change and press "e" again
> - at the end of the line type "init 3" and press [Enter]
> - then on next page press "b"
> 
> It did not work on FC5_64.  I tried "init3" without a space.  It also
> failed.
> 

Press "a", not "e".  At the end of the line, put in a space, then "3".
It will boot into level 3.

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  Steve