[NTLUG:Discuss] now Ive done it...[the short story]

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Tuesday, 25 April, 2000, Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com did write:

> 
> 
> oh, ok, you can't get back into the box.  you'll have to boot with the
> rescue disk.  If you won't lose much I would suggest reinstalling.

You can also reboot, and at the LILO prompt, type

linux init=/bin/bash

to get a root shell without going through init/mingetty.  When you fix the
problem, reboot.  

Actually, on reflection, you may not need to reboot -- an 'exec /sbin/init'
should do the trick...

Richard


> do you still have the executable /sbin/mingetty?  Did permissions get
> screwed up?  Does " rpm --verify mingetty" return any errors?  Are you
> sure no packages were installed on the hard drive you removed?