(Summary) inittab problem
Thanx to chuck, Yannick and Mateusz for their replies.
I got a boot: prompt from my floppy and did a
mount root=/dev/hda2 single
which at least one reply told me to do.
I thought I had tried all the tty (alt+fn) but I didn't see a login prompt when I looked. Perhaps I was a bit quick.
Thanx again.
Dp.
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SYS: Slackware 9.1 on Dell Dim 2400, Intel Cel
I have go myself into a bit of a fix. I changed the default runlevel from 3 to 4 so I would get a GUI at boot up. However I haven't correctly configured my Xserver and now my system is stalling at boot-up and I can find a way to get access to a shell to edit the inittab.
Does anyone know of a switch/arg I could use that might allow me to boot the system into single users mode? I thought I could boot from my floppy which prompts me for a command to use.
Any ideas,
Dp.
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I thought I had tried all the tty (alt+fn) but I didn't see a login prompt when I looked. Perhaps I was a bit quick.
You should see a prompt like this
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single user mode doesnt look for a login, you're automaticly put into root.
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Thanx again.
Dp.
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Quoted 2 lines · Dermot Paikkos
I thought I had tried all the tty (alt+fn) but I didn't see a login prompt when I looked. Perhaps I was a bit quick.
You should see a prompt like this
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But not on Slackware, It's more secure Linux distro than others and even on single user mode you are asked for user name and password.
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single user mode doesnt look for a login, you're automaticly put into root.
This is not true on Slackware.
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Thanx again.
Dp.
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Quoted 4 lines · Mateusz Marzantowicz
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You should see a prompt like this
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But not on Slackware, It's more secure Linux distro than others and even on single user mode you are asked for user name and password.
Thanks, I didn't know that. (Nor did I know DP was using slackware.) That approach has mixed blessings of course (what if you want to get into single user mode because you forgot the root password and need to reset it? -- of course there are other ways to do that)
I couldn't imagine situation when sysadmin simply loses his password. But it could happen and than the only way to get into Slackware box is to hack it. ;-)
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Thanks, I didn't know that. (Nor did I know DP was using slackware.) That approach has mixed blessings of course (what if you want to get into single user mode because you forgot the root password and need to reset it? -- of course there are other ways to do that)
I couldn't imagine situation when sysadmin simply loses his password. But it could happen and than the only way to get into Slackware box is to hack it. ;-)
If you use the init=/bin/sh option, it will just run /bin/sh directly, with no login. Or you can boot using a repair disk.
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