if you are using grub you can append "single" to the "kernel" line for a
given kernel ... check these instructions:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html

this will bring you into single user mode.

Austin

Gerard Snitselaar wrote:
> Anyone know if there is a key sequence for bypassing a startup script
> during boot in Linux (RedHat in particular)? I thought there was one,
> but for the life of me I can't remember it, nor find anything online. I
> might just be confusing it with C-\ on HP-UX. 

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