From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 0: 5:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from internal.nci.com.au (internal.nci.com.au [203.38.215.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FC737B43F for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w95vmware.ns.com (ppp2.nci.com.au [172.30.0.162]) by ncigw.nci.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA09813 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 12:38:22 +0930 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000819115548.00abf600@203.16.214.248> X-Sender: ns@203.16.214.248 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:55:48 +0900 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Richard Sharpe Subject: Bypassing init Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am trying to bypas init on startup ... I have tried the following in the loader: set init_path="/bin/sh" and then boot -s But it fails. Init exits or fails. I have checked and /bin/sh is statically linked. Is it wrong to put quotes around the above? Can anyone suggest the correct way to do this? Regards ------- Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org) Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours Author, Special Edition, Using Samba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message