Subject: Re: boot without init.
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@pci.on.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/06/1995 12:21:31
On Fri, 6 Oct 1995 12:04:06 -0400
David Gilbert <dgilbert@pci.on.ca> wrote:
> It does not. It seems that maybe ufsboot is at fault here? I
> havn't recompiled and reinstalled it since I got the first version
> that worked with my hardware. Anyways... I was able to net
> boot... but that ability will disappear in a week.
Sorry, Dave (Gilbert :-), I meant to repond to your first post, but ...
EBUSY.
Anyhow, booting into single-user _requires_ init. In fact, all "run
levels" (don't hit me) are enforced by init. With no init, well...
I think the best you can do at this point is boot the machine diskless
(with an extremely minimal root filesystem) and copy a new init onto the
disk...
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