On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:16:38AM -0500, Mike wrote: > Whenever I need to get into a box (lost root pw, hosed a config file, etc) > I just throw in an old Debian boot floppy, and mount the partition > with the files I need to fix. Edit them, save them, reboot. > "linux single" at the boot prompt did the trick. thanks all! Eric > > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:55:17AM -0700, Patrick Fleming EA wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002, VB wrote: > > > 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 > > The kernel image is not usually named 'boot'. If you are using lilo (I > don't remember if that is the default on 7.1- but it's running on my 7.1+ > box)then when the graphical login comes up X brings a text logon. > will show you the name of all images that lilo knows about. Type the > name of your default image(the first one) > #image single > and you should boot to single user mode. I thinnk that You could also type > #image 1 and get into runlevel 1. > > HTH > > > > > > > > > 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? > > > ________________________________________________ > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > Patrick Fleming, EA > http://myhdvest.com/patrickfleming > Licensed to represent taxpayers > before Exam, Appeals, and Conference > divisions of the IRS > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss