[lug] LILO timeout & single user HELP!!

[carl.wagner at level3.com]

Try Tom's root and boot.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

Although I am having problems getting it to create the disk
 under RedHat 7.2. It gives me an error when it tries to 
format at 1.72meg.


tomsrtbt-1.7.361 $ ./fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
Double-sided, 82 tracks, 21 sec/track. Total capacity 1722 kB.
Formatting ... 
ioctl(FDFMTTRK): Invalid argument

I haven't figured that one out yet.
It did work under previous versions though.

Carl.


Shannon Johnston wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I've got a system that the shadow file has been removed, the lilo timeout
> is 0, and it won't (for whatever reason) boot from the rescue disk.
> 
> Does anybody know how to interrupt lilo when the timeout is 0? I need to
> get into this system. Or is there a place where I can make a generic boot
> disk that can mount an ext2fs disk? The disk that I made from the system
> isn't working.
> 
> Shannon Johnston
> nunar at nunar.com
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