bash 3.01

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 27 20:54:46 UTC 2004


On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:18:04PM -0400, John Wildberger wrote:
> How do I pass init=/bin/oldbash during booting?
> On my system  (mdk10.0) I can enter the interactive mode by pressing the 'I' 
> -key. However, there is no interaction possible until *after* the line 
> 'INT: starting runlevel5. 
> Neither one of the following questions that I have to anwser with either Y or 
> N will relate to init.

Which boot loader?

Both lilo and grub allow you to pass arguments when dropped to command
line mode, or editing mode.  You do have to interrupt normal booting
though.

Lennart Sorensen
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