Re: emergency action
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
> im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i
> somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from
> rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my
> changes?
>
> For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, when it
> gets to the configuration screen i can cntrl break out of it into a shell
> and hack around at will, is this possible on a debian box?
>From LILO boot prompt (press shift when LILO comes up) type "linux
emergency"
This will put it into single user runlevel.
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