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.
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 <ctrl>X brings a text logon.
<tab> 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?
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