Booting debian standalone?

Mansur, Warren warren.mansur at hp.com
Mon Apr 12 15:47:00 EDT 2004


> I see that when rebooting I get a 5 second window to hit 
> Enter and get a 
> shell. But it
> is a very lightweight shell with next to nothing for commands 
> available. 
> I have to use
> echo just to get a directory listing! Can I at this point get 
> the system 
> to come up in single
> user mode? There seems to be no lilo or grub on the thing.

If you can get to a shell, then type 'init 1' to enter single user mode. From there, type 'init 3' to enter multi-user mode without starting X. 'init 5' starts multi-user mode with X.



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