[Gllug] newbie/problem

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 10 Dec 2002, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
>I wrote:
>>Hardly; one doesn't even require rescue discs, provided one is not
>>locked out of the boot loader. Just boot with init=/bin/bash -
>>unfortunately I don't speak vanilla GRUB let alone SuSE's GRUB, so
>>someone else will have to explain how to do that...
>Not the most friendly environment for a newbie though.
>No keymap set, no paths or other environment variables...

You only want to edit one file, not write a thesis - and I think it's
important in general not to propagate the myth that a rescue disc or
CD (let alone a distribution-specific one) is necessary for this
operation.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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