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From: Andrew <ald2@arrakis.es>
To: linux-newbies <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: boot problem
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 17:21:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42764578.7090305@arrakis.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b0d6e0d05050206107fae523@mail.gmail.com>

joy merwin monteiro wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Somewhere, your kernel parameters have been messed up.....
>it is using bash as init. at the lilo prmpt,
>
>init=/sbin/init
>
> as a parameter
>should do the trick, though it should have been the other way round,
>when you want to bypass the passwd, you do
>
>init=/bin/bash
>
>see if anything is added to lilo.conf..... can't think of any other place
>unless init has been replaced by bash :-(
>
>Joy
>  
>
It didn't work, but it seems to be on the right track as in fact 
/sbin/init doesn't exist.
Any idea how it can be created? Or why it wasn't?

TIA,

Andrew
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-02 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-02 12:07 boot problem Andrew
2005-05-02 13:41 ` chuck gelm
2005-05-02 15:16 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-05-02 15:26   ` Andrew
2005-05-02 16:08     ` Ray Olszewski
2005-05-02 16:10     ` Andrew
     [not found] ` <4b0d6e0d05050206107fae523@mail.gmail.com>
2005-05-02 15:21   ` Andrew [this message]

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