Booting Single User Mode Directly - HP Linux workstation x1100 Getting Started Manual

Linux system setup and recovery
recovering your Linux system
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Linux Commands (Continued)
gunzip
The command is not available in rescue mode. Make sure you know
man
how to use all the above commands before you use rescue mode.
If your root file system is undamaged, you can mount it and then run any
standard Linux utility. For example, suppose your root file system is in
. Here is how to mount this partition:
/dev/hda5
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /foo
Where is a directory that you have created.
/foo
Now you can run man and other utilities. At this point, you are running
Linux in single-user mode.
If you do not know the names of your Linux partitions, you can guess;
mounting non-existent partitions will do no harm.

booting single user mode directly

You may be able to boot single-user mode directly. If your system boots,
but does not allow you to login when it has completed booting, try
rebooting and specifying one of these options at the LILO boot prompt:
LILO boot: linux single
LILO boot: linux emergency
In single-user mode, you computer boots to run level 1. Your local file
systems will be mounted but your network will not be activated. You get
a usable system maintenance shell.
In emergency mode, you are booted into the most minimal environment
possible. The root file system will be mounted read-only and almost
nothing will be set up. The main advantage of this over Linux single user
is that your files are not loaded. If
init
you can still mount file systems to recover data that could be lost during
a re-installation.
probe
mke2fs
init
zcat
is corrupted or not working,
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