It was ok for me, I have a second HD to boot from but otherwise I would not have any access to the ext2 drive where ttytab is.You can tell MiNT what to run, straight from MINT.CNF on your boot (TOS) drive in the MINT partition. (IIRC, the line is "INIT = ...").
And when you can't tell MiNT what to run, you can comment out the INIT= altogether and then you end up in the mini-shell...
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