ermegency mode

[retupmoca]

Hi,
I am running Fedora 9 and wanted to play around with Linux (break it to learn more about it). I removed my inittab to see how "emergency" mode works. So obviously on a reboot it failed like I wanted complaining how there wasn't an inittab. So I tried to edit grub to boot into this emergency run level which is not supposed to read the inittab at all. I appended my kernel line with "emergency" and it seems that Fedora is still trying to read the inittab. Essentially I do not think that it is attempting to boot into emergency mode. I know I am putting it in the right place because I also tried appending "init s" and the startup messages indicated that it was going into single user mode. Is there something I am missing? I know how to fix it with a boot disk but I want to figure out why this isn't working. Thanks for any help.

[rituraj.goswami]

well i think i'msorry but there is noway in which you can boot into your machine without the inittab file. coz the init tab file tells the machine to which run level o boot to to run which scripts when switching to other run levels etc.

goodluck, i too do the same way to try learn. but sometimes there aren't any solutions.