Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't restart my Woody with a custom 2.4.18 without it hanging at > this point.
[...] > The systen hang's at this point. [...] > How do I mount and edit the startup sequence to avoid this? You can either boot the system into single user mode or boot from alternate media. To boot into single user mode, (assuming lilo, others can help with grub or whatever). Pass the argument "single" to lilo at the "lilo:" boot prompt. Press SHIFT if you aren't setup for a boot prompt. When the system boots into single user mode, you will not be loading these services as they are likely only started in the multi-user run levels. Once the system is up, you can remove the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d as approriate, (or remove the uneaded packages, etc). Debian uses a system V style initialization process. This part of the policy manual explains it quite well: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit ...but to answer your direct question, to mount those partitions when booting from alternate media; figure out which partition you need by using fdisk to look at the partition table of the harddisks, (if you don't remember which partition is where). fdisk -l /dev/hda will look at the primary master IDE disk then mount the partition with something akin to: mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt Then you can go noodle the /etc/rc?.d symlinks as before, they will be in /mnt/etc/rc?.d or wherevr you mounted the partition. hth, -- +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Jereme Corrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator Restorative Management Corp. gpg: 1024D/9C39E1F0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
