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LiLo BOOT argument ???

I have a system, running on SUSE. It stops with msg ( No prompt ; nothing)

/dev/hda3 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced

The Watchdog timer on the system boots the system after 900 seconds automatically.

Unfortunately I don't have any floppy disk or CD-ROM drive with this box to boot with, no option in bios to boot with network as well.

I am sure by passing certain values to lilo I can get to the rescue prompt.

I tried passing (lilo tab is lnx in my case)

Lxn rescue

Lnx single

Lnx emergency

No luck.

Any idea what to pass in argument with lilo??????????

Any help appreciated

Rushi

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Rushi
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Hi Rushi,

I'm not sure of what SuSE's 'rescue' abilities are, but you should be able to start the kernel and then a shell by doing this:

Lnx init=/bin/sh

(providing /bin/sh isn't corrupted on /dev/hda3 :) You'll then have to check the hda3 parition manually and/or turn off the watchdog so it can boot and fsck.

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Damion, thanks

It works, although it was urgent so I took the hard disk out and did the fsck as secondary.

But next time I will use init=/bin/sh

One more thing;

I am redesigning one of our products to run on embedded Linux, which is apparently running happily on full version of Linux for 8 years now.

It has to be very secure, as police and authorities all over the world use it and I don't want to keep any loophole in my new system.

Any suggestions from any one to build secure embedded Linux system ???..

Cheers

Rushi

start

watchdog so

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Rushi

Secure against what? There are *many* conceivable risks for an embedded system used for a law enforcement function.

We can't advise you without more information; the correct path will vary significantly depending on which risks are most important to moderate.

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