On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:39:16AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:

 > 	Why not just modify /etc/fstab such that the entry for
 > the root filesystem is corrupted slightly.  this will cause it to panic on
 > mountroot, which should be a good test.  Then, boot off a floppy, mount the
 > root, modify /etc/fstab to be correct, and you're off and running again.

No, that won't cause it to fail.  The initial mountroot is done by the
kernel.

You could always remove init, I suppose.  Or kill -9 it.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>