On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 08:20:32PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >If this doesn't work, I don't think you have a choice. > > Ofcourse you can always boot into maintenance mode instead of single > use mode (boot with "linux maintenance" or "linux -b"). It will get > you a root shell directly, without password, and without running _any_ > of the init scripts. Remember that your root file system is read only at > that point and that not even /proc is mounted ..
Is this different to "linux emergency"? Emergency does ask for a password here. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
