Once upon a time Rob Benton said... > Then inside /boot/grub/menu.lst copy your regular boot option and > modify it like this: > > title Debian 2.6.10 terminal > root (hd1,0) > kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.10 root=/dev/hdb1 ro init=/sbin/init 3 > boot > Another way of doing this is to edit /etc/inittab and cange the "id" line. By default it says: id:2:initdefault: Change the 2 to another runlevel to make it the default.