> You know, I found that Debian still asks you for the root password even > when typing 'linux single'. It's traced down to this line in > /etc/inittab: > > # What to do in single-user mode. > ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
If it does (and a decent distribution really should), you can do something like this in lilo: linux init=/bin/sh root=/dev/hda1 rw And this happily gives you a shell on debian. --Ferenc ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
