3 Oct
2004
3 Oct
'04
1:04 p.m.
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 23:46:49 +0100, you wrote:
Ron Hudson wrote:
Because none of the userspace daemons would be running. Saying
"init=/bin/sh" is a great way to get the root filesystem and a command
prompt and *nothing* else - the init scripts are never run, so no other
filesystems are mounted, no kernel modules are loaded, nothing like
that. The kernel loads, brings the console up to a known state, and
then forks off to the shell. Normally, of course, it would fork init,
which would then read inittab and then the startup scripts.
Gordon.
Why would the userspace daemons be needed?
Monolythic kernel. No modules.
Filesystem support built in emulator.
etc. etc.
This is somebody who wants bare access to the hardware, the thinnest
possible layer of emulation. Probably they'd be better off launching
it from a DOS session, actually, since Linux isn't really a compact
'program loader' and that's about all DOS really is. Using Linux that
way would be a waste.
and simh
would run in single-user mode. This would, of course, be silly.
why silly? if it would work.