Re: mysterious offer of shell for 5 sec. at boot

2002-09-02 Thread Donald R. Spoon
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Re: mysterious offer of shell for 5 sec. at boot

2002-09-02 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 21 June 2002 22:59, Dan Jacobson wrote: > 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.

Re: mysterious offer of shell for 5 sec. at boot

2002-09-02 Thread David Teague
? 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

mysterious offer of shell for 5 sec. at boot

2002-06-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
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 p