How to boot into emergency or multi-user mode from GRUB2

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Issue

  • How to boot into the emergency target (formally single user mode) or multi-user target (runlevel 3 equivalent in systemd) in GRUB2?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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