Boot to single user mode in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

This is symptomatic of how often I break X.org but I often need to boot my Ubuntu 10.04 machine into single user mode and fix some configuration file before rebooting into the GUI. I forget how to do it every time so here is how:

1. Hold the Shift key at boot to display the Grub boot menu.
2. Select the top Grub entry, it will be similar to:

   Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic-pae

3. Hit e to edit the the Grub entry.
4. Find the line that looks like this:

   linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic-pae
   root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
   ro vga=794 quiet splash

5. Change the line to:

   linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic-pae
   root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
   init=/bin/bash rw

6. Hit crtl+x to boot

Your machine will now do a one time boot into single user mode. Once you reboot the changes you just made to Grub will be reverted.

** /bin/sh corrected to /bin/bash thanks Hola2040.