From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 0:35:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A2637B423 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:35:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA05701; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:05:28 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:05:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Richard Sharpe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bypassing init Message-ID: <20000819170527.C323@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20000819115548.00abf600@203.16.214.248> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000819115548.00abf600@203.16.214.248>; from sharpe@ns.aus.com on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 11:55:48AM +0900 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 19 August 2000 at 11:55:48 +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote: > 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. In which manner? > I have checked and /bin/sh is statically linked. Is it wrong to put > quotes around the above? No, the quotes are OK. They may even be obligatory. > Can anyone suggest the correct way to do this? I'd think that the correct way would be to run init. What are you really trying to do? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message