RE: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-05-01 Thread Santiago Vila
Howland, Curtis wrote: Where might one find documentation on this bf2.4 kernel? See dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4 as I said... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Culd someone explain why is there a root shell prompt for the Linux kernel: Press ENTER to obtain a shell (waits 5 seconds) 1.- an explanation on why this is shipped by default (to add it to the Securing Debian Manual Where is

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: 2.- someone to step up an explain how to disable this behavior Maybe something like this: 1. In /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf, set: DELAY=0 2. Then regenerate your ramdisk image, for example: cd /boot mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.4.18-k7

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Now that I think of it this might be an issue with self-installed kernels. I'm going to document this behavior in the Manual, commit the changes and close the bug. Of course, woody does *not* install 2.4 kernels IIRC. The default install does not,

Re: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Now that I think of it this might be an issue with self-installed kernels. I'm going to document this behavior in the Manual, commit the changes and close the bug. Of course, woody does *not* install 2.4 kernels IIRC. That

RE: Why is there a prompt for a root shell when the default linuxkernel boots?

2002-04-30 Thread Howland, Curtis
Where might one find documentation on this bf2.4 kernel? Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Now that I think of it this might be an issue with self-installed kernels. I'm going to document this behavior in the Manual, commit the changes and close the bug. Of course, woody does