Re: newbie idiot

From: Mal (frenchcanadian_at_REMOVETHISsympatico.ca)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:13:41 -0500

I tried again now when it boots up it hangs at line: INIT-2.05b

Mal
"Mal" <frenchcanadian@REMOVETHISsympatico.ca> a écrit dans le message de
news:sVJ%b.18086$Mo4.607269@news20.bellglobal.com...
> I added : add "init=/bin/sh" withouth the "'s at the end of that line
> pressed enter to save changes and b to boot
>
> system then boots up and problem still persist
>
> mal
>
>
> "Nils O. Selåsdal" <noselasd@frisurf.no> a écrit dans le message de
> news:slrnc3upq2.dh0.noselasd@utelsystems.dyndns.org...
> > In article <VqJ%b.20239$253.1292208@news20.bellglobal.com>, Mal wrote:
> > > tried it twice and it doesn't work
> > >
> > > in kernel this is what I get
> > >
> > > grub edit>kernel /vmlinuz-2-4-20-30.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd+ide-scsi
> > >
> > > I took out : '' hdd+ide-scsi'' and replaced it with : "init=/bin/sh"
> yes
> > > without the ('')
> > No need to take out that, but it shouldn't matter.
> > >
> > > What I'm I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > When I said root file Its a directory called root wich I cannot access
> > Cause you are not the user(root) which have permissions to that.
> >
> > Now, define did not work. What happend ? when you did the above.
> > What did you do afterwards ?
> >
> > --
> > Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
> > Nils Olav Selåsdal
> > System Engineer
> > w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
>
>

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