On 08/15/2012 09:30 AM, Christoph Vigano wrote:
a "recovery" bash prompt. I had to use a boot live CD to edit the fstab and then all was well. On all my sysvinit systems a bad mount point would just give me an error and continue booting. Wouldn't it have been easier to just start with init=/bin/bash ? Just asking, as this would have been my first attempt at solving the
I could not fix the systems as I could not get problem.
Greetings, Christoph
maybe, I usually just boot to a rescue cd or usb mount the root partition and go to work at it. When I break things or have boot failures I don't know what is wrong until I look. Some times if you are using jfs on root all that is needed is an fsck but it won't boot because something is buggered so init=/bin/bash doesn't work, so I just get the usb drive and plug and play. I do this so I can invoke the maximum damage to the system under abuse :)