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SubjectRe: Single user mode
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.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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