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 <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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