[Nottingham] Single User Mode
Cam
camilo at mesias.co.uk
Tue May 4 19:20:16 BST 2004
Philip Scott wrote:
> Another way is to add 'init=/bin/sh' to your kernel paramaters (in the same
> way as just described). This way you don't get anything loaded other than the
> kernel and a shell, which is sometimes what you want.
Good advice - but if you try this you have to do some very low level
things yourself. For example you have to mount /proc and you may have to
re-mount root to be writable (say if you're going to fix anything).
-Cam
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