How to put boot into interactive mode

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2014, Tom Horsley sent:
> Over the last 20 years, I have occasionally tried that many times,
> and on no system has hitting "I" ever gone interactive for me (it
> always had the message that said hit "I" for interactive boot,
> it just never worked :-).

But did you type "i" or "I"?

I had various levels of success with it, but so long ago that I can't
remember whether it required the shift key.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

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