On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:30:27AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Actually, for all I know the single user mode in lilo also loads S20s. > Perhaps I've been a littel unfair to grub. Yeah it does. This is because GRUB just passes on the boot parameters to the kernel. You probably wanted to say something like init=/bin/sh to avoid SysV startup. Simon