From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Subject: Re: boot problem Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 17:21:28 +0200 Message-ID: <42764578.7090305@arrakis.es> References: <427617F5.1030307@arrakis.es> <4b0d6e0d05050206107fae523@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4b0d6e0d05050206107fae523@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbies 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unless init has been replaced by bash :-( 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs