Hi,
2009/9/7 Dan Hatton vi5u0-alug@yahoo.co.uk:
Dear All,
I just frightened the life out of myself by selecting this option from my grub menu:
title Gentoo Linux (rescue) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.28-tuxonice-r10 root=/dev/sda5 real_root=/dev/sda5 init=/bin/bb
bb? :-O as in the funky aalib demo from 2001 (ish)?
That's an old kernel - I expected better from a Gentoo user ;) Do you not emerge --sync often?
and finding it dropped me straight to a shell with root privileges, with no need to enter a password. Since the machine sometimes gets
Yes... what did you expect? ;)
left unattended in areas other people have access to, I'd really like this not to be a possibility. But I would still like the possibility
Take out the option - comment it out?
of a minimal-services, non-GUI boot. Any ideas, please?
Erm. Setup the correct services to run on some other run-level other than default? I don't know enough about Gentoo's runlevel system, but the handbook states you add services to the default runlevel by:
rc-update add service_name default
So I'd look at the rc-update docs to figure out what other runlevels you can use there directly. Then setup your grub to run into your special runlevel if you select one of the options.
You *want* to read this (change appropriately for your architecture): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2&chap=4#d...
(I should start using Gentoo - some of the features are darn neat)
Srdjan