Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> writes: > On Monday 19 July 2010 20:58:37 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I am unable to umount /usr in single user mode on an old system. >> I believe the system is baselayout-1 and is amd64. >> The trouble is open files, at least some of which appear to be related >> to bash and locale (see the files below). >> >> I use grub. On the kernel line can I specify sh instead of bash? > > Not directly. grub and init does not know about, or even care about, bash. > > You can change root's shell in /etc/passwd to sh and bash should run in sh > mode. Or you can append init=/bin/sh to the grub boot line and try that. You > will of course have to run all the init scripts yourself as init will not run > when you do this. And you can't reboot either - when you exit the shell in > this mode you'll get a panic
Thanks for the information. allan
