Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread dwilliams1066
Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 8/30/05, David W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I should have mentioned, I'm the: >> >> >>   Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy >> >> from debian-user >> >> I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message: >

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread dwilliams1066
This did it!!! I had misunderstood the last lines of this post. (I stupidly missed the "in either case". I"m back in business. Thank you Bryan! Thank you all! A VERY grateful Dave Williams. Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 8/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-29 Thread dwilliams1066
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Michael Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Michael Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Alan Ianson wrote: >On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >>Alan Ianson <

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-28 Thread dwilliams1066
Michael Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Michael Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>>Alan Ianson wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-28 Thread dwilliams1066
Michael Spang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Alan Ianson wrote: > >>On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>   >> >>>Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>     >>> On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:       >I've tried booting off a cd-rom

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-27 Thread dwilliams1066
Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I've tried booting off a cd-rom and mounting the disk, but I can't get the >> disk to mount for some reason. I'm willing to try pretty much anything at >> this point. > >My default grub menu list

I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-27 Thread dwilliams1066
I added a command to run mysqld to bootmisc.sh. Now everything boots fine, but the command that I added to bootmisc.sh runs but doesn't exit, leaving me with a system running mysql but at runlevel 2 (single user mode) . It does not return a prompt so I can't log in and fix the problem. With it