Misko, on 2019-08-31: > On 8/31/19 3:26 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > If operations here over do not make any difference, then you > > really should consider creating a Rescue drive on an USB thumb. > > I have had a good experience with SystemRescueCD over the > > years: > > > > http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/ > > > > But if you have a Debian installation media, you can also > > achieve a thing or two by booting on the "Rescue Mode". > > > > Will try some of those. I have Debian installation media for > 6.0.1 only and unsure whether it would work with strech.
Since your system probably inherited stuff from Squeeze (like
partition format version), it might work, but I wouldn't bet on
it either.
> > If you absolutely positively do not want to build a rescue
> > media, last chance option would be to edit the Grub menu entry,
> > and in the linux line, edit (or append if non-existent) the
> > following "init=" option (hit 'e' to edit the menu entry and F10
> > to boot):
> >
> > linux root=UUID=[...] ro init=/bin/bash
> >
> > This is a last chance option, do not expect your system to
> > operate properly without a regular init process. Boot in this
> > mode only to proceed to your investigations as of why the
> > machine fails to spawn the login process. Quitting this shell
> > hangs the machine; you have to hard reset.
> >
>
> As said, no Grub here. Is there similar option for Lilo?
Using lilo, on Debian 10 but it shouldn't have much changed, I
could boot as such by retyping a command line looking like the
following on my virtual machine, at the "boot:" prompt:
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/vda1 ro init=/bin/bash
Your command line will be surely different since you are running
on real hardware. Please, per Reco's recommendation, consider
to have a look at the document to properly use this mode:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-2.html , chapter 2.3.
>
> Reco
Kind Regards,
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Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org>
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