Re: Hi all,

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:24:22AM +0530, sanjay wrote:
> Hi Raj,
>    thanks a lot and it did work. But one doubt is still bugging me. When
> I gave
> "linux single" at the lilo prompt it asked for the root passwd. But when
> I gave
> "linux init=/bin/sh" it directly entered into root. could you please
> elaborate
> on this?

linux single tells the default init program which runlevel (in this case,
single or single user mode) to start at. linux init=/bin/sh tells the
kernel not to use the default init program, but to use the specified one
instead. Your init is probably configured so that it will ask you for the
root password even in single user mode. To boot in single user mode, even
linux 1 will also work.

Binand

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