Re: [PLUG] kernel won't boot

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:25:27PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Can you boot to single user? (Should be a -s flag to the
> bootloader...)

On Linux, it's a command-line argument of "single" to the kernel.  So if
you're using LILO, you'd type something like the following:

  linuxnew single

You can even specify which executable to use in place of /sbin/init.
"init=/bin/bash" can be helpful at times (but keep in mind the init
scripts won't be run, so you'll have to manually "mount -o remount,rw /"
and mount other partitions, and umount all your partitions before you
reboot if you don't want to see fsck running).

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