[PLUG] Getting a root prompt upon booting
Kyle Accardi
sandbox at pacifier.com
Mon Dec 1 18:10:02 UTC 2003
Rich Shepard wrote:
> Frustratingly, when I was at the boot prompt I discovered that I had no
> editor available to me. No vim, emacs or joe! Worse, when I tried 'ls /usr',
> the shell prompt immediately returned; no listing of files or directories in
> /usr.
This sounds like a case for chroot. Suspect that your normal filesystems
weren't mounted and you were working with the bare minimum. One nice thing
RedHat does in this case is to spit out a reminder on how to do this when in
single-user/rescue mode.
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Kyle Accardi
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