Re: Password to single user boot.

[Ossama Othman <othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>]

> The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot
> from, before selecting a default.  On my system (with only /dev/hda2
> marked bootable), I see a "2FA:" prompt.  If I press any keys here, I
> can press "2" (boot from hda2), "F" (boot from floppy), or "A", which
> changes the prompt to "1234F:" and allows me to boot from any
> partition.  This is a useful feature for Debian, and completely
> undesirable behavior for the system you describe.

Aahh!  I had no clue what you guys were talking about until now.  I
completely forgot that the default Debian install does the above.  :)
Thanks for the elaboration.  I don't have the above problem since my
lilo isn't set up like the above.  Thanks again for the details.

-Ossama


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