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echo: rberrypi
to: PANCHO
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2020-09-15 11:30:00
subject: Re: Just how much bloat c

On 15/09/2020 11:17, Pancho wrote:
> On 15/09/2020 11:11, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
> 
Actually doesn't answer the question. It seems to assume the kernel will
always execute /sbin/init


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