Re: Fwd: Re: How to avoid meltdowns in the future
The "new" LILO (22.2) doesn't seem to allow that - I can only select from
a menu. Have I missed something?
Anyway, booting single doesn't help by itself, because openAFS still tried
to load when coming up in single-user mode. I'll try the init=/bin/sh
trick next time.
Thanks to all.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Wayward Soul wrote:
> Or you could just type in linux 1 at the LILO prompt.
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> DATE: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:06:30
> From: "Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>
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> > This seems silly. Is there an easy/accessible way, preferably through
> > LILO, to boot into single-user mode with few, if any, daemons running?
>
> I don't think you can without some advance planning, but if you do
> arrange ahead of time, you can do it.
>
> One option is to put an entry in your /etc/lilo.conf file, that is not
> the one you use by default, that boots your system into single user
> mode. I think what you do is give the "1" option to the kernel. "1" is
> not a kernel option, but any remaining kernel options are passed to
> init, and "init 1" gets you into single user mode.
>
> Then press the left-shift key to get LILO's menu when you boot.
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> That's what I used to do back when I ran LILO.
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> However, a preferable option is to use GNU Grub, or one of the other
> more featureful boot loaders. Again with GNU Grub you can have a preset
> menu option to boot single user, but if you forget or you want to boot
> single-user off some other kernel, you can escape into Grub's command
> line and manually boot with any kernel or options you want.
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> Grub is available with apt-get or dselect. Also see:
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
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> Another alternative, if you didn't plan ahead, is to go to somebody
> else's Linux installation and install Grub on a floppy. Then you can
> boot your PC off that floppy and use Grub's command line to select your
> boot options.
>
> Another advantage of Grub is that you don't have to configure anything
> when you replace a kernel - no worry about forgetting to run lilo to
> replace your block list. If you have a /boot/grub/menu.lst entry for it
> already, you can just select it immediately when you boot. If you have
> no menu entry, you can use the Grub command line.
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