> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Mike Kilburn wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > But doesnt 'linux init=/bin/sh' always work? If init does not run
> > then inittab will be ignored.
>
> How do you get that on a floppy disk???? You don't use lilo to make
> a bootable floppy, you use rdev which (as far as I know) doesn't take
> anything except setting the root file-system and whether or not it's
> r/w.
Try 'mount root=/dev/hda' on prompt of kernel floppy.
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