Michael MacIsaac writes: > What I see is a prompt for the root password: > > INIT: Going single user > INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal > *Give root password* for maintenance > (or type Control-D to continue):
If it's under z/VM, you can do ipl ... parm init=/bin/sh and it'll just start up a shell on the console without even starting up the real init. Then you can passwd root follwed by a #cp signal shutdown If you're not under z/VM then you only get to specify the loadparm from the HMC Load panel so put "prompt" (no quotes) in the loadparm, do the Load and then in the Operating System Messages/SCLP applet, respond to the menu prompt with 1 init=/bin/sh (where the number 1 is the menu entry to use rather than a runlevel number). --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie Linux and System z Technical Consultant, zChampion IBM UK Systems and Technology Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
