Misko, on 2019-08-31: > On 8/31/19 3:26 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > If operations here over do not make any difference, then you > > really should consider creating a Rescue drive on an USB thumb. > > I have had a good experience with SystemRescueCD over the > > years: > > > > http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/ > > > > But if you have a Debian installation media, you can also > > achieve a thing or two by booting on the "Rescue Mode". > > > > Will try some of those. I have Debian installation media for > 6.0.1 only and unsure whether it would work with strech. Since your system probably inherited stuff from Squeeze (like partition format version), it might work, but I wouldn't bet on it either. > > If you absolutely positively do not want to build a rescue > > media, last chance option would be to edit the Grub menu entry, > > and in the linux line, edit (or append if non-existent) the > > following "init=" option (hit 'e' to edit the menu entry and F10 > > to boot): > > > > linux root=UUID=[...] ro init=/bin/bash > > > > This is a last chance option, do not expect your system to > > operate properly without a regular init process. Boot in this > > mode only to proceed to your investigations as of why the > > machine fails to spawn the login process. Quitting this shell > > hangs the machine; you have to hard reset. > > > > As said, no Grub here. Is there similar option for Lilo? Using lilo, on Debian 10 but it shouldn't have much changed, I could boot as such by retyping a command line looking like the following on my virtual machine, at the "boot:" prompt: linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/vda1 ro init=/bin/bash Your command line will be surely different since you are running on real hardware. Please, per Reco's recommendation, consider to have a look at the document to properly use this mode: > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-2.html , chapter 2.3. > > Reco Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d
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