Well, it turns out that I was doing things the wrong-headed olde way. Before I figured out the systemd way, I sorted through the flash-kernel script and wound up modifying /etc/flash-kernel/bootscript/bootscr.sunxi to set the console variable in the bootargs variable to tty0 and that did work for "telinit 1". However, I found that this failed because the root account is locked by default in the Freedombox image. Setting a password for root then allowed working in classic single user mode. Then I learned that systemd has its own way of entering rescue mode with the command of "systemctl isolate rescue.target" which will even work through an SSH connection. As this let me work from this desktop, this is the route I ultimately used for the maintenance of moving several directories from the uSD to the SATA drive. After unlearning a few things, all went well. BTW, BTRFS subvolumes are cool! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: http://www.n0nb.us GPG key: D55A8819 GitHub: N0NB
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