Thank You for Your time and answer, Joel: >Recently had fun with Fedora, when it didn't like the way I specified >my HDs, it would drop me into the ctrl-d prompt, but I couldn't go >anywhere beyond that. Any key I pressed, including ctrl-d, would cycle >me another ctrl-d prompt.
When I had the prompt - I had no problems w/ getting root shell since I correctly entered its password. But situations probably differ in what has been mounted - root or of secondary importance (like /usr) partitions. If / partition was absent/not-mounted then, what did provide the prompt itself - the linux (kernel)? Were there any parameters passed to kernel at boot (in grub or whatever loader You used)? >There's a half-fixed bug on that still over there, but I'm not >interested in testing any further, so I simply changed my fstab to >spec the drives by UUIDs. (I always forget the command for getting the >UUID from the drive. These days, I list /dev/disk/something and use >the extra information. I think that's the same on Debian. Yeah, I'm >logged in on Fedora right now.) Similar issues, different symptoms, >I'm thinking. It'd try to offer my the password prompt, but it wasn't >mounting the root drive, so there was no /bin/passwd to run, and it >just exceptioned it's way back to the ctrl-d prompt. Yea, it seems logical. >Anyway, the question I'd ask is whether you can force this behavior if >your configuration is correct. (By current definition of correct, >which appears to be to refrain from trying to mount /dev/sdb4 and such >in your fstab, and mount UUID=long-hex-string instead. Or >/dev/mapper/vol-group for LVM volumes.) And, I guess you imply that >you can mount your drives in this password-less shell, but is that the >case? Yes, the drives are mounted OK. I just skipped one - of secondary importance to boot process when ended up w/ password-less root shell - I was amazed - how easily it is for Debian to get the shell - just boot it skipping a single partition and You are there - whole the system is under Your control - no need even to take off the drive or boot own OS from other media! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eda1949.8872cd0a.0b8a.ffffa...@mx.google.com
