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Re: Rescue mode.
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 01:22:03PM -0800, Jon Burchmore wrote:
> 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
Well not quite: Depending on your distribution, init will do quite a lot
when you pass the argument "single" or "S" to it. Better to use the "-b"
boot option. That will drop you into sulogin or a shell right after the
sysinit step.
And for real desperate situations, like a broken init, you can always pass
"init=/bin/sh" or even better, keep a statically linked sh in /sbin and
pass "init=/sbin/sh". That will even allow you to fix a broken libc if you
either use /sbin/sash or /sbin/sln together with /sbin/sh.
But enough of that, this definitely belongs into Linux Administration 101
and has nothing to do with the kernel...
Yours,
Dominik Kubla
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