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Aug 14 at 23:03 comment added Mes Thank you for that. I'm an old PDP11 BSD Unix kernel guy where we only had single user aka root mode.
Aug 14 at 19:38 comment added Peter Cordes @AustinHemmelgarn: Was going to say the same thing. init=/bin/bash isn't "single user mode" (traditionally runlevel 1 in SysV init), it's "full manual mode" or something.
Aug 14 at 10:59 comment added Austin Hemmelgarn It’s debatable whether booting directly into a shell like this is actually ‘single-user mode’. The very concept of single-user mode is very much a function of your init system, but if you boot directly into a shell you have no init system running. Separately, on systemd-based systems like Ubuntu, you probably want to use rescue mode or emergency mode (entered from boot by psecifying rescue or emergency on the kernel command line) instead of booting directly into a shell.
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