Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:33:35 +0000 (GMT) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Single user mode |
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > 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.
So use lilo. You're right, if you boot the kernel directly off a disk there is no way to pass arbitrary arguments to it.
P.
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