inittab problem

inittab problem

[Dermot Paikkos]

Hi,

SYS: Slackware 9.1 on Dell Dim 2400, Intel Cel

I have go myself into a bit of a fix. I changed the default runlevel from 3 
to 4 so I would get a GUI at boot up. However I haven't correctly 
configured my Xserver and now my system is stalling at boot-up and I 
can find a way to get access to a shell to edit the inittab.

Does anyone know of a switch/arg I could use that might allow me to 
boot the system into single users mode? I thought I could boot from my 
floppy which prompts me for a command to use.

Any ideas,
Dp.

~~
Dermot Paikkos * dermot@sciencephoto.com
Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library
Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668

Re: inittab problem

[Yannick Van Osselaer]

On Friday 04 February 2005 12:24, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> SYS: Slackware 9.1 on Dell Dim 2400, Intel Cel
>
> I have go myself into a bit of a fix. I changed the default runlevel from 3
> to 4 so I would get a GUI at boot up. However I haven't correctly
> configured my Xserver and now my system is stalling at boot-up and I
> can find a way to get access to a shell to edit the inittab.
>
> Does anyone know of a switch/arg I could use that might allow me to
> boot the system into single users mode? I thought I could boot from my
> floppy which prompts me for a command to use.

At the lilo prompt, typ this: init=/bin/sh rw
-- 
Yannick Van Osselaer

Re: inittab problem

[Jim C. Brown]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:43:50PM +0100, Yannick Van Osselaer wrote:
> On Friday 04 February 2005 12:24, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > SYS: Slackware 9.1 on Dell Dim 2400, Intel Cel
> >
> > I have go myself into a bit of a fix. I changed the default runlevel from 3
> > to 4 so I would get a GUI at boot up. However I haven't correctly
> > configured my Xserver and now my system is stalling at boot-up and I
> > can find a way to get access to a shell to edit the inittab.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a switch/arg I could use that might allow me to
> > boot the system into single users mode? I thought I could boot from my
> > floppy which prompts me for a command to use.
> 
> At the lilo prompt, typ this: init=/bin/sh rw

You'll have to do a disk sync and run 'umount -a' before turning your computer
off via the power switch if you boot this way.

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> Yannick Van Osselaer
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Re: inittab problem

[chuck gelm]

Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> SYS: Slackware 9.1 on Dell Dim 2400, Intel Cel
> 
> I have go myself into a bit of a fix. I changed the default runlevel from 3 
> to 4 so I would get a GUI at boot up. However I haven't correctly 
> configured my Xserver and now my system is stalling at boot-up and I 
> can find a way to get access to a shell to edit the inittab.
> 
> Does anyone know of a switch/arg I could use that might allow me to 
> boot the system into single users mode? I thought I could boot from my 
> floppy which prompts me for a command to use.
> 
> Any ideas,
> Dp.
> 
> ~~
> Dermot Paikkos * dermot@sciencephoto.com
> Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library
> Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668

  At the lilo boot prompt
boot: Linux
  add 'single', thusly
boot: Linux single
  or
boot: Linux multi
  perhaps even
boot: Linux emergency

HTH, Chuck

Re: inittab problem

[Jim C. Brown]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:24:26AM -0000, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> SYS: Slackware 9.1 on Dell Dim 2400, Intel Cel
> 
> I have go myself into a bit of a fix. I changed the default runlevel from 3 
> to 4 so I would get a GUI at boot up. However I haven't correctly 
> configured my Xserver and now my system is stalling at boot-up and I 
> can find a way to get access to a shell to edit the inittab.
> 
> Does anyone know of a switch/arg I could use that might allow me to 
> boot the system into single users mode? I thought I could boot from my 
> floppy which prompts me for a command to use.
> 
> Any ideas,
> Dp.
> 

At the boot prompt, append a run level number to the kernel image name.

e.g.

boot: zImage 1

(1 is usually single user mode)

boot: zImage 3

(this gets you back into regular multi user text mode)

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> Dermot Paikkos * dermot@sciencephoto.com
> Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library
> Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668
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