Your cmdline shows that you are actually in single-user-mode, not recovery mode. On a standard system, selecting "recovery mode" from the grub boot menu will add 'recovery' to the boot command line, which will trigger recovery mode to be started.
Your cmdline shows that you are actually in single-user-mode, not recovery mode. On a standard system, selecting "recovery mode" from the grub boot menu will add 'recovery' to the boot command line, which will trigger recovery mode to be started.