Sometimes with horrible hardware problems where
either the display or keyboard are non functioning
the thing is to have sshd start at a low runlevel
so you can get a remote login to the machine and see whats
going on. I had a rescue disk that did just that
but sadly lost it - are there any options to make
Dyne be a "headless" utility like this?
For an example, I have a laptop lying around which
has a completely broken (smashed) display but afics
is otherwise perfectly alright. I think it might
have been a version of the "Ultimate Boot CD" or
"FIRE" I had, but it was scripted cleverly so that
the fallback position after each timeout was to assume
the worst (user unable to interact) and finally drop
into just bringing up the network and starting sshd.

Cheers,
Andy



On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:17:11 +0200
jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:

> >
> hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:34:46PM +0530, Deepak Mishra wrote:
> > i think dyne should have a boot option to boot into a text console,
> > just in case of emergencies like yours like one that knoppix has -
> > "linux 2" on the boot prompt boots you into text
>
> dyne:bolic already has this option, typing at boot:
> linux 2
> should work as usual.
>
> then there are additional options:
>
> ascii=true
> to have a fully functional system without X, including mouse and
> framebuffer browser (good for very old computers to be surfstations)
>
> volatile=true
> to have a shell during the boot process, mostly for debugging purposes,
> before mounting the whole system (running on busybox ash)
>
> ciao
>
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