[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.

--
Kyle Accardi





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