locked out of my box

[VB]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:14:11AM -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> If you have a rescue floppy or a normal boot floppy with lilo you can do:
> 
> linux single
> 
> should put you in single user, no password mode.


That was my understanding too.  But it is not working.  This is basically a default install of RH 7.1 with ssh server.  It's just a file server.  All of my backups are on it. "boot single" and "boot -s" return "could not find kernel image:boot".  Any thoughts here or am I off to toms root boot?

Thank you,

Eric  
> 
> > ok i goofed; i have a typo in /etc/inittab.  guess i set the run level to 9 instead of 3.  that's what happens when you learn 10-key on two different keyboard layouts.
> > 
> > on this machine, i normally  boot from a floppy to hda5; i.e., lilo is not installed.  but booting here fails because obviously run level 9 does not exist.  "boot -s" i thought would work around so I could fix /etc/inittab, but it is not booting into single mode. not sure why.   how can i get to that file to fix it?
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