Lilo and recovery mode

kofucii · 08-23-2009, 08:13 AM

Hello,
I have slackware with lilo boot loader. Is there a way to add a recovery mode to Lilo such as ubuntu's recovery mode? I mean the system starts, when it comes to runlevel one, waits 1 min for password if you wish to enter runlevel one, and if password is not provided loads to runlevel 3 or 4?

b0uncer · 08-27-2009, 11:44 AM

By "recovery mode" you probably mean single-user mode. Did you already try

Code:

linux single

or

Code:

linux init=/bin/sh

at the LILO boot prompt? Here 'linux' would be the entry you usually boot (depending on how you named it)..it's been long since I used LILO, but I recall you could just add the runlevel number after the normal boot entry to get it boot that runlevel (1 for single-user mode etc.) or pass other options to the kernel..

Why won't you use GRUB? It's less a headache to configure..