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Re: [Xen-users] Can't boot VM in single user

To: Madison Kelly <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Can't boot VM in single user
From: Rainer Sokoll <rainer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:15 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:09:28PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   For some reason, one of my VMs running CentOS5.4 x86_64 stopped
> booting all the way... It gets to: "Starting HAL daemon: [ OK ]"
> then nothing else. I've tried killing it and adding 'single' and '1'
> to the 'extra' command in the config file, but it doesn't seem to
> effect how it boots.
> 
>   Can someone let me know how I may go about regaining a shell login
> to a VM this messed up?

What if you use "init=/bin/sh"?

Rainer

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