locked out of my box

[VB]

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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