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SubjectRe: Single user mode
Richard B. Johnson writes:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Mike Kilburn wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Some distributors execute /bin/sulogin in "single user" mode so you
> > > will be challenged for a password even in single user mode. This
> > > will prevent you from logging in.
> >
> > But doesnt 'linux init=/bin/sh' always work? If init does not run
> > then inittab will be ignored.
> >
>
> How do you get that on a floppy disk???? You don't use lilo to make
> a bootable floppy, you use rdev which (as far as I know) doesn't take
> anything except setting the root file-system and whether or not it's

Actually, I do use LILO to make boot floppies. Much more flexible: I
can keep a handful of kernels on the one disc, plus I can change root
devices and so forth without having to run to another Linux machine to
run rdev. "One size fits all".

Regards,

Richard....

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