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Re: runlevels remodeled



On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:04:19PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > You get that behaviour if you boot "emergency" mode instead of single
> > user. 
> 
> If by "emergency mode" you mean init=/bin/sh, then doing:
> 	exec /sbin/init
> will continue the boot, I'm pretty sure.

No, sysvinit has a real "emergency mode"; boot with "emergency" on the
kernel command line. On Debian it will run sulogin to ask for the root
password, then dump you into a shell.

No networking, only root mounted (read-only), etc.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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