> On the grub menu, edit the entry of the system you want to boot and on the
> kernel line, add "init=/bin/bash" without the quotes. Boot that modded boot
> instructions sequence. After kernel loads, you'll have a bash. Type: "mount
> -o rw,remount /"

Make sure that your bash is statically linked,
otherwise you can run into problems with this
approach. It's acutally a good idea to keep
a static bash and just put this into grub as
the 'shell-init' or 'aaaargh' entry
(it's in their example config).




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