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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:19:50AM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> To boot a machine into single user mode you need a kernel, init,
> and /bin/sh (minimally).

Roughly the same thing was bothering me last night.  You get a chance
to specify the shell when init is in the last phase of getting you to
single-user mode so you can say /rescue/sh at that point.  init is
another story and I asked someone about that, they said it either is
or will shortly be a loader option so you can override that to be
/rescue/init that way.

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						Ken Smith
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