XenServer: boot guest into single user mode
Don’t you just love when your *nix VM decides not to boot, or the bloody intern lost the root password.
Fear not. Boot into single user mode!
- Open up XenCenter
- Right click on VM, click Properties
- Click on Boot Options
- Append the word “single” to the “OS boot parameters”, click OK.
- Reboot the VM and it should drop you into single user mode.
- Edit the VM properties again and remove the “single” so it boot correctly next time.
- We can use also the follow parameter: init=/bin/bash
- Default value is: -- quite console=hvc0