Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!
This did it!!! I had misunderstood the last lines of this post. (I stupidly missed the "in either case".
I"m back in business.
Thank you Bryan! Thank you all!
A VERY grateful Dave Williams.
Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 8/29/05, dwilliams1066@netscape.net <dwilliams1066@netscape.net> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recommend a good disk recovery company?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Dave Williams
>
>You don't need one for this. Which bootloader are you using, LILO or
>GRUB? You can pass init=/bin/sh using it.
>
>For grub, select the boot menu option, press 'e', select the line
>beginning with kernel, press 'e', go to the end of the line and add
>'init=/bin/sh'. Then press enter, then 'b'.
>
>For LILO, hold shift until you get a lilo prompt. Then type linux init=/bin/sh.
>
>Either way will get you a command prompt. Then:
>mount -t proc proc /proc
>mount -o remount,rw /
>[edit, fix bootmisc.sh]
>mount -o remount,ro /
>umount /proc
>exec /sbin/init
>
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