Help: DNS Resolver and Root Shell

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Hui Li <openlinuxsource at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How exactly do you "boot to login prompt"?

> When system boots to login prompt the current dir is '/'.

>>
>> Do you boot with init=/bin/sh?

> The attachment is /etc/rc and /etc/inittab

Your inittab has this line:

    ::askfirst:-/bin/sh


>> Shell by itself does not change to any directory when it starts.
>> It remains in whatever directory is current for its parent process.

The parent process (init) has / as its current directory.
Therefore the shell started by that line will be in / too.

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