On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 07:23:56PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >When a system has a boot-failure I always have to use an emergency disk > >because booting into S makes no sense since the problem arises in rcS.d > >in most cases. And there is no less than S to boot into. > > Yes there is. There's a special 'maintenance' mode (boot with "-b" > or "maintenance" on the command line) that drops you in a shell > before *anything* else. Wow, I'd never heard of that. Can you contrast this with passing "init=/bin/sh" to the kernel as a boot parameter, and exiting that shell with "exec /sbin/init"? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If encryption is outlawed, only branden@debian.org | outlaws will @goH7Ok=<q4fDj]Kz?. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
Attachment:
pgpbj2fDR1vwp.pgp
Description: PGP signature