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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