David Teague wrote: > Back in June, Dan Jacobson asked about the shell offered during boot of a > 2.4.xx K 7 shell. (Mine is K6, but message and behavior is the same here.) > I never saw a response for this, and while his message is archived, there > is no response archived. > > I would like to know what the shell is for? Does anyone know? Lacking > that, can someone point me to a place I can find out? > > David > > > > On 22 Jun 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > >>Date: 22 Jun 2002 04:59:21 +0800 >>From: Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: mysterious offer of shell for 5 sec. at boot >>Resent-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:45:19 -0400 >>Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>During boot (2.4.18-k7) I see something about hit RET by 5 seconds for >>shell. So I did and there's this shell that you can't do much more >>than "set" in. After I typed exit the kernel couldn't find root and >>I had to hit the reset button. >> >>So what is this "shell" for? We are on the virtual disk phase still >>here I suppose. >> >>BTW, I notice that the first messages I see are tacked at the _bottom_ >>of the dmesg report. >>-- >>http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > >
I believe it is there as a debugging tool. It offers you a root-shell, where you can modify the system in case it isn't booting correctly, i.e. you can insert modules needed for booting (scsi, ext3, etc). Cheers, -Don Spoon- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
