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Re: Rescue mode.
burch@offline.org (Jon Burchmore) wrote on 07.03.99 in <36E2EDFB.64B2D947@offline.org>:
> Alexander Maryanchick wrote:
> > I wonder that Linux has no rescue boot mode.
> > Even Mustdie(TM) has this mode.
>
> It does. Pass the command line parameter "single" to the kernel. You can
> do this from the LILO prompt without changing your configuration file.
That's something that's handled by init(8), the kernel just passes the
arguments along. And in sysvinit 2.76, the *real* rescue mode is activated
by the "emergency" (or "-b") argument ("Boot directly into a single user
shell without running any other startup scripts").
MfG Kai
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