bash 3.01

[John Wildberger]

On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:14 pm, Alan Cohen wrote:
>
> My understanding is that it's the "timeout" rather than the "delay"
> which is key here. I think that the "timeout" refers to the amount of
> time to leave the "boot" prompt there before LILO boots the default by
> itself.
> If, however, you press TAB when the "boot" prompt appears, LILO should
> display a list of "labels" and then wait forever for you to choose one.

All what TAB does is to stop the timeout.
The real secret to get into the command line is to press the ESC -key while 
the timeout is still counting down, or when you have stopped the countdown 
with TAB.
I only found this out by trial and error. Perseverance paid off. 
Once you are in the comand line mode which is indicated by listing all the 
labels followed by the line starting with 'boot:' 
One can then select a specific bash by typing 
linux init=/bin/whatever_bash_you_want
It is interesting to note that neither the TAB nor the ESC are mentioned in 
the man for lilo.conf and lilo. I also begin to wonder what all this nonsense 
of delay,  then pressing CapsLock,Ctrl,Alt really means and when or how it is 
used.
In my case, when I type ' linux init=/bin/bash2.05b it gets me directly into 
the bash prompt by bypassing the other tasks that a normal startup would do, 
like selecting run level and initialize system service. However, it is good 
enough to make changes to the system.
John
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