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Re: init=/bin/bash not working with initrd?



On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:33, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> Hai,
> 
> when tonight I tried to boot into my system bypassing init I found to
> my surprise that "init=/bin/bash" doesn't work anymore.  Atleast not

I know it works on a 2.5 kernel, I tried it (more than once :), that's
without initrd though.

rgh

> with kernel-image.2.4.20 and initrd.  It still works with 2.2 kernels
> without initrd.  Googling and searching the deb archives didn't give
> me any hint why it stopped working, but I suspect it has to do with
> initrd.  Anyone in the know wanting to share his/her insights?
> 
> 
> -- 
> groetjes, carel
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