Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

[Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.uk>]

Shaul Karl wrote:
> 
> You might want to enter
> 
>     init=/bin/sh
> 
> at the lilo prompt (assuming you have lilo) in order to skip the system
> initializations and check that partition manually with the file system
> debug/repair tools.

Is there some magic way of entering text at the lilo prompt? I've tried typing
during the brief pause when it says LILO but no text appears and booting just
continues after the pause. Just before it says LILO it says MBR (master boot
record I preume), does this have anything to do with it? If I hit a key just
after MBR has appeared the text 1FR: appears after it but nothing much
else.....
thanks
alex


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