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"?