Re: How to interrupt the boot process?
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:23:52 +0200 Toni Mueller (support@oeko.net)
wrote:
> - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell?
>
> 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.
Go to the lilo prompt (press SHIFT or ALT or CTRL) when the prompt
appears.
Type `linux single' (or whatever name you've put) (press TAB to get a
list).
You should boot linux in single-user mode. Note that it will try to
mount partitions.
If the above doesn't work, you can try `linux emergency' which will
only boot the kernel and fork a shell. No init script is called. This
should always work unless your root partition is unreadable and/or
you screwed something up with the shared libraries.
In this last case, you can resort to using a boot/root disk. But
`linux emergency' should work for you.
> - Is there an equivalent to chroot in Debian Linux (I only can compare to
> BSD* here).
Yep, it's in /usr/sbin, and only root can use it.
> - When having a set of kernels how do I manage to get them all have their
> individual System.map?
During the boot phase, before klogd is started, symlink it to one of
your system.map-<version>.
> - As a quick fix, could somebody of you please point me to a dpkg working
> under BSD*?
Er, don't know that one.
Phil.
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