Boot conduit in safe/recovery mode?

[wkhatch@unimar.com]

Before I do yet another reset/reconfig loop, is there any way to boot the conduit into recovery/singleuser/safe mode?

[Jeff Hatch]

Hello,

There isn’t a way to get into Linux single-user mode (not without messing with the run levels). The explanation is mainly to do with security. Customers that have analyzed our products do not want it available during the boot process.

Depending on what you are needing to do, it is possible to drop into the boot loader (u-boot). From there you can do a lot of things and have complete control of the device. Accessing the rootfs and other file system partitions is possible, but it is tedious.

Jeff

[wkhatch@unimar.com]

Thanks Jeff; didn’t see this until today. I had messed up the sudoers file, because the version of vi was alien to me, so I used nano instead, and… clearly didn’t end so well. I ended up restoring it, but good to know about u-boot. Thanks again.

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