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

2005-08-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Can anyone suggest a tutorial on writing what I think are called init >> scripts? > >Take a look at the files in /etc/init.d, just use one of them as a >templat

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

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 8/30/05, David W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I should have mentioned, I'm the: > >> > >> > >> Re: I m

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 >> >

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

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
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!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good disk recovery company? > > Thanks in advance, > > Dave Williams You don't need one for this. Which bootloader are you using, LILO or GRUB? You can pass init=/bin/sh using it. For grub, select the boot menu o

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 Michael Spang
[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: On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

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!

2005-08-28 Thread Michael Spang
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 and mounting the disk, but I can't get the disk to mount for some reason.

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

2005-08-27 Thread Alan Ianson
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 and mounting the disk, but I can't get > >> the disk to mount for some reason. I'm willing to try prett

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

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

2005-08-27 Thread Alan Ianson
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 has a "recovery" option. If that option isn't

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