On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:13:23PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:13:44AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, > > > which you would need in order to change root's password. > > > Well, once you're root (with init=/bin/sh), you remount / rw. If you > > have a non-traditional / setup, one possibility is to run each of the > > initscripts in /etc/rcS.d with the "start" parameter, in numerical > > order, until / is mounted rw. > > Shouldn't.. > > # mount > > .. tell you all you need to know? > > Or are you referring to something else?
Well, if you look in /etc/rcS.d, you'll see all the initscripts that get run prior to / being mountd rw. For example, one is setting the system clock. Another is mounting the kernel virt fs. On my particular box, I can probably go ahead and remount / rw from the sh prompt without any preliminary steps. However, I don't know what the OP's box is like. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
