Okay, here is the thread. Please read my
mail `LILO's "emergency" (?)'. It explains a lot.
> LILO boot: linux emergency
> In emergency mode, you are booted into the most minimal
> environment possible. The root filesystem will be mounted
> read-only and almost nothing will be set up. The main
> advantage of this over linux single is that your init
> files are not loaded. If init is corrupted or not
> working, you can still mount filesystems to recover data
> that could be lost during a re-installation."
Not true. If init is corrupted, "emergency" may not help, as this
depends on a working init. Instead boot with kernel parameter init set
to a different executable:
init=/bin/sh
LILO: linux init=/bin/sh
GRUB: kernel .../vmlinuz root=... ...=... init=/bin/sh
Bye,
Robert
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