Re: [iPAQ] slight panic: messed up boot script?

From: Richard Cohen <richard.a.t.vmlinuz.org>
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 10:51:14 EDT

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, jonathan chetwynd wrote:

> yes a number of people have said this, I've read it in the faqs etc, but I'm
> still confused how.
> is this via minicom, or what?

Yes. When the bootloader screen comes up, press the button (I forget which
- it says on screen) for a serial console, and start typing in your
minicom...

> > You can specify the name of the 'init' program on the kernel command
> > line. Set it to /bin/sh, and instead of booting normally, you get
> > thrown straight into a shell.

Cheers
Richard
Received on Tue Jun 04 14:51:33 2002

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