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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