Re: Wishlist for woody+1
On 27 May 2002 12:09:49 +1000
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 06:59, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 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"?
>
> My problem I always have with init=/bin/sh (not sure if emergency mode
> helps or not), is that I always forget that Ctrl+C doesn't work...
>
> eg. in order to fix the computer, I need a file from the network. In
> order to get the network going, I need to test it. In order to test the
> network, I type in something like:
>
> ping hostname
>
> and find, yes, the network is up and running, but at this point in time
> it doesn't really help much.... Only option at this time is the big
> reset button.
No, because I'm generally unfamiliar with the situation. However, I have
a standard workaround:
ping -c 1 hostname # and yes, you can forget the -c 1 too... howbout
# a special prompt to remind you that youi're in
# emergency mode? like "noctrlC $ "?
-Jim
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