Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:57:45 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Single user mode |
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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 r/w.
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