Hold down shift when you boot. That will get you a lilo prompt.
Type 'image init=/bin/sh'. Assuming that is where sh resides, which is
almost always the case, you will get a shell without login. Edit the
/etc/passwd file manually to fix your shell. HTH
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Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroComputer Specialist University of Tulsa
"Pardon me, stewardess. I speak Jive."
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was changing the shell for root today and I accidently typed in the
> wrong path to the shell. So, now I can't log in as root. I have tried to
> go into single user mode, but the delay on lilo is set to 0, and I can't
> catch it before it boots. Can anyone tell me how I can get in to change
> the shell back to a valid one???
>
> Thanks
> -Bryan Opfer
>
>
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