On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:23:52 +0200 Toni Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell? > > All I did in terms of ^C, ^Q@(#*$& and Alt-any-key didn't help, regardless > of where in the boot process I press them. Go to the lilo prompt (press SHIFT or ALT or CTRL) when the prompt appears. Type `linux single' (or whatever name you've put) (press TAB to get a list). You should boot linux in single-user mode. Note that it will try to mount partitions. If the above doesn't work, you can try `linux emergency' which will only boot the kernel and fork a shell. No init script is called. This should always work unless your root partition is unreadable and/or you screwed something up with the shared libraries. In this last case, you can resort to using a boot/root disk. But `linux emergency' should work for you. > - Is there an equivalent to chroot in Debian Linux (I only can compare to > BSD* here). Yep, it's in /usr/sbin, and only root can use it. > - When having a set of kernels how do I manage to get them all have their > individual System.map? During the boot phase, before klogd is started, symlink it to one of your system.map-<version>. > - As a quick fix, could somebody of you please point me to a dpkg working > under BSD*? Er, don't know that one. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]