Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
Err reread and disregard my thoughts - evidently too tired! But its true citrix forums would be a better audience esp given the upstream vendor and hence centos moving to kvm.. Sent from Android mobile On Jun 9, 2010 6:24 PM, "Stephen Harris" wrote: > I'm trying to boot into the shell of a XenS

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
And given that the xen kernel is not a Linux kernel but rather that centos is just dom0 so I'm not sure that init argument would do what the OP wanted anyway... Sent from Android mobile On Jun 9, 2010 6:24 PM, "Stephen Harris" wrote: > I'm trying to boot into the shell of a XenServer 5.6 (I bel

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread Stephen Harris
> I'm trying to boot into the shell of a XenServer 5.6 (I believe CentOS > 5.5 underneath). I added init=/bin/sh to the boot line, but I'm still XenServer 5.6 is based on CentOS 5.4 [r...@penfold ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release XenServer release 5.6.0-31188p (xenenterprise) [r...@penfold ~

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread m . roth
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm trying to boot into the shell of a XenServer 5.6 (I believe CentOS > 5.5 underneath). I added init=/bin/sh to the boot line, but I'm still > getting an error. Here is the boot line: > > mboot.c32 /boot/xen.gz com2=57600,8n1 console=com2,v