Subject: Re: boot floppy
To: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/13/1997 20:59:37
Martin Husemann wrote:
> 
> A long time ago, boot floppies used to have a "striped down" /sbin/init,
> which only will go upto single user mode. Is this still the case?
> If so, replacing init with the default one should do the trick!

I think I am using the default one, as I recompiled src/sbin/init
without the DEBUGSHELL option which removed the "Enter pathname of
shell or RETURN for sh: " prompt and when I booted with the floppy, I
didn't get that prompt (but still needed the ctrl-D).

Cheers, 

 Patrick