locked out of my box

[Patrick Fleming EA]

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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