On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:38 AM, anuraag chowdhry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have SL6.1 and the moment , the second stage Grub presents the Kernel
> selection Menu, Pressing A ( for appending) and then a spacebar and then
> typing single , pressing ENTER , ultimately prompts me the root password
> after booting.
>
> is the behaviour not different here.?
>
> The system should boot in single user mode , it does but then it asks for
> root password for maintenace.or press Ctrl-D to continue.
>
> i tried typing '1" or "s"  instead of single , but still it prompts for the
> password.

Do you have "SL_password_for_singleuser" installed?

Do you have "SINGLE=/sbin/sulogin" in "/etc/sysconfig/init"?