Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

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

Alex Hunsley wrote:
> 
> 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

Sorry, should have done some reading before posting the above, my bad...

I've read the LILO howto and that says that pressing tab should do the trick,
or holding down alt or shift when the LILO bit comes up. But neither of these
action seem to make any difference - the machine continues booting regardless.

thanks
alex



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