[CentOS] Any alternative to Single User Mode

[Jonathan Billings]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 08:47:24PM -0400, Animesh Pandey wrote:
> After I restarted my VM, the OS gets stuck here (
> http://i.stack.imgur.com/KVYxV.png). Even after trying the single user
> login it was stuck there. But the emergency mode worked alright.

Did you try switching to another VT and logging in via the text login
prompt?  How about hitting escape during boot to see what it was doing
when it hung?  I also suggest removing 'rhgb quiet' from the kernel
command line in the bootloader, so you can see more during boot.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>