[svlug] Question about boot params

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 06:36:14PM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 05:26 PM 8/24/00 -0700, Ivan Passos wrote:
> 
> >I have two questions:
> >- I remember Rick Moen (and others) mentioned in the past in this list a 
> >  "better" command to do the same as "linux single" at the LILO prompt
> >  (and that was because "linux single" doesn't work in some cases). What 
> >  was that command??
> 
> I don't recall what Rick posted, but the common alternative is
> 
>         linux init=/bin/bash

Actually:
	linux init=/bin/sh
is the best becuase /bin/sh is a standard name. Bash is a popular
shell, not a mandatory component of a linux system!

When using this method you have to remout the root filesystem before
you can write to it. I believe (from memory) that the command is:
	mount -o remout,rw /
but I could very well be wrong!

Good luck.