Once switched on, the smartbook start immediately with booting. Is it possible to press a key (when and which?), and then entering boot parameters?

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karl

Yes, but only on the serial console, which is not an option when on the road...

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CzP
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/

The option to change boot parameters is done in boot.script. You change what you need to on the bootargs line, and then you run

"prep-kernel 2.6.31.14.24-efikamx"

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Steev Klimaszewski, Genesi USA Inc.
Senior Software Engineer

Thanks for advise and background info!

I probably should have said, that I lost my password and simply wanted to start with init=/bin/bash hoping that would have been an option.

In the end, I simply reinstalled the system; there were no user data on the internal storage medium :)

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karl

For future reference if you reply N to the prompt the installer gives you for whether or not you want to really wipe out everything and install you will get dropped to a shell. (login as oem with password oem)

from there it should be easy to recover your password.

I havent tested these commands but it would probably be something like