Re: How to interrupt the boot process?
Hi Toni,
there may have been much more profound answers to your questions, bu t in
case, there were none, here is what I do when in trouble:
>
> Now I have some questions:
>
> - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell?
At the beginning, just after your POST completes (BIOS checking the system),
hit CAPS LOCK once -> this is prerequisit for Lilo to prompt you for
further input befor bootstraping Linux...
At the "Lilo: " prompt, you may alter some kernel-driver parameters, as well
as the init-behaviour.
the keyword "single" at the Lilo-prompt will bootstrap Linux in single-user
mode...
> All I did in terms of ^C, ^Q@(#*$& and Alt-any-key didn't help, regardless
> of where in the boot process I press them.
I don't know of such keypresses, that equal the SPARC Boot
Interruption...:-?
>
> - Is there an equivalent to chroot in Debian Linux (I only can compare to
> BSD* here).
Yes there is an equal chroot. I'd better cut&past portion of the man-page
:-)
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NAME
chroot - change root directory
SYNOPSIS
chroot newroot [command]
DESCRIPTION
The chroot command changes its root directory to the supplied directory
newroot and exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of your
shell.
Note, command or the shell are run as your real-user-id.
Note also that in the Debian GNU/Linux version only chroot(2) is
called.
In the original 4.4BSD-Lite version both chdir(2) and chroot(2) are
called.
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>
> - When having a set of kernels how do I manage to get them all have their
> individual System.map?
don't know if you can...but it isn't critical during bootstraping.
Hope this helps.
regards,
Stoyan
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