Booting debian standalone?

[Travis Roy]

Can't you just boot into single user mode?

I don't remember the command offhand for Grub, but in lilo at the boot 
prompt just type "linux single"

Dan Coutu wrote:

> Mansur, Warren wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
> No can do. There is no init command at this point. The available 
> commands are:
> ash, sh, echo, sleep, insmod, and modprobe. That's not a lot to work 
> with here.
> 
> Dan
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