On 15/09/2020 11:07, Andy Burns wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> I understand that in some sort of way it needn't be, or it could be
>> specified to NOT be /sbin/init....(where?)
>
> Normal way on grub based machines is to override init=/bin/bash in the
> grub.cfg
>
> Presume cmdline.txt is the equivalent on a pi, can you append
> init=/bin/bash  there?

Well that is precisely what I am trying to find out!
Busybox installs must do something like that



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