The "new" LILO (22.2) doesn't seem to allow that - I can only select from a menu. Have I missed something?
Anyway, booting single doesn't help by itself, because openAFS still tried to load when coming up in single-user mode. I'll try the init=/bin/sh trick next time. Thanks to all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Wayward Soul wrote: > Or you could just type in linux 1 at the LILO prompt. > > > --- > All that is gold does not glitter, > not all those who wander are lost... > -Gandalf:Lord of the Rings > > > > --------- Forwarded Message --------- > > DATE: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:06:30 > From: "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > This seems silly. Is there an easy/accessible way, preferably through > > LILO, to boot into single-user mode with few, if any, daemons running? > > I don't think you can without some advance planning, but if you do > arrange ahead of time, you can do it. > > One option is to put an entry in your /etc/lilo.conf file, that is not > the one you use by default, that boots your system into single user > mode. I think what you do is give the "1" option to the kernel. "1" is > not a kernel option, but any remaining kernel options are passed to > init, and "init 1" gets you into single user mode. > > Then press the left-shift key to get LILO's menu when you boot. > > That's what I used to do back when I ran LILO. > > However, a preferable option is to use GNU Grub, or one of the other > more featureful boot loaders. Again with GNU Grub you can have a preset > menu option to boot single user, but if you forget or you want to boot > single-user off some other kernel, you can escape into Grub's command > line and manually boot with any kernel or options you want. > > Grub is available with apt-get or dselect. Also see: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ > > Another alternative, if you didn't plan ahead, is to go to somebody > else's Linux installation and install Grub on a floppy. Then you can > boot your PC off that floppy and use Grub's command line to select your > boot options. > > Another advantage of Grub is that you don't have to configure anything > when you replace a kernel - no worry about forgetting to run lilo to > replace your block list. If you have a /boot/grub/menu.lst entry for it > already, you can just select it immediately when you boot. If you have > no menu entry, you can use the Grub command line. > > Michael D. Crawford > GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting > http://www.goingware.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------- End Forwarded Message --------- > > > > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account > at http://www.eudoramail.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
