[CentOS] Unable to change runlevel at boot time

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

James Hogarth wrote:
>>
>>   <TYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet radeon.modeset=0
>>
>>   when I try to change 0 to 1,3,5 it reverts to 0.
>>
> Don't change that 0 as it has nothing to do with runlevel? put a 1, 3 or 5
> after that so it reads:
>
> rhgb quiet radeon.modeset=0 3
>
> as an example for runlevel 3 ... you will probably want to remove rhgb and
> quiet if debugging as well

I *never* want them on a server (nor on my own workstations).

Another option, though is
kernel <blah, blah> s

to boot to singleuser mode.

     mark