Re: Breaking into a Linux box running initrd
Andrew Pollock <debian-lists@andrew.net.au> wrote:
>
> The way I've always broken into a Linux box when it's been seriously
> broken or the root password's been forgotten is to go "linux init=/bin/sh"
> at the LILO prompt.
>
> However, this doesn't appear to have the desired effect when you've got a
> system that boots with an initrd.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to how you do it when there's an initrd in use?
Use initrd-tools 0.1.36 or later.
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