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From: "Paul Rolland" <rol@as2917.net>
To: "'Milton Miller'" <miltonm@bga.com>
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Subject: Re: Init single and Serial console : How to ?
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 10:44:12 +0200
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Hi Milton,
> 
> Not quite single mode, but what I have done in similar situations is 
> boot with
> console=ttyS0 init=/bin/sh

Should do the trick. Single mode was good because it was not running
rl 3 init-scripts.
Not running any of them is good too :-)
The trick was to have the serial console/shell without having to
go thru the ioctlsave stuff.


Regards,
Paul