On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:04:19PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > You get that behaviour if you boot "emergency" mode instead of single > > user. > > If by "emergency mode" you mean init=/bin/sh, then doing: > exec /sbin/init > will continue the boot, I'm pretty sure.
No, sysvinit has a real "emergency mode"; boot with "emergency" on the kernel command line. On Debian it will run sulogin to ask for the root password, then dump you into a shell. No networking, only root mounted (read-only), etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]