A possible enhancement to Linux that would have saved me a lot of grief
last night would be a way to boot the system single user, and be able to by
pass execution of the startup script /etc/rc.

Last night, while debugging my cron, I placed the new version in /usr/bin and
rebooted.  However, I forgot to uncommnet out the portion of code that places
itself in the background  :-)  Linux came up very nicely and then sat there
running cron in the forground :-(.

The first "correct" action I should have taken was along time ago by creating
a new boot disk that mounts the floppy as root (but didn't).  I got lucky in
figuring out that bytes 508 and 509 on the boot disk control where root is
mounted from!! :-)

Any how, is it possible to have a feature such as that?  Possibly a differnt
type of boot floppy that boots a really tiny kernel and then gives you a
"boot>" prompt.  You could then boot single or multiuser and execute the real
boot disk.  Just a thought and I have no idea what can/cannot be done during
the boot stream.

-kwh-
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