Comment 30 for bug 575469

Well, the patches above essentially split single user and recovery as it was the easiest way of making the "resume" option of friendly-recovery work properly.

So if we think the changes I proposed are reasonable we'll get both a proper recovery mode and some kind of single user mode for Oneiric. With single user mode here meaning, the boot sequence ends with a root shell. I don't think it strictly matches the regular definition of single user mode (as IIRC you're not supposed to start networking or services in single user mode but upstart does it anyway).

For P, we could then spend a bit of time trying to improve upstart's behaviour in single mode and make the distinction between recovery and single clearer to the user (didn't want to change strings in grub for Oneiric).