[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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