October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
Now that you have installed Linux and booted your system for the first time, here are a few useful things to know before using your system.
LILO lets you pass parameters to the Linux kernel, which overrides the default behavior. For example, you may have been experimenting with startup configuration files and done something to prevent the system from coming up properly. If so, you want to boot the system up to the point where it reads the configuration files and no further. The override for this is single. This boots the system in single user mode so you can take corrective action. This is also useful if your system doesn't boot all the way to the login: prompt for some reason.
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