Re: Boot fails

[Alson van der Meulen <alsonm@linuxfreak.com>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:22:52PM -0000, bloodshot wrote:
> I'm running potato and everything's been fine for the last couple of months
> until the other day when I had to shut down for an evening. I have
> upgraded/installed several programs since the original installation, but
> unfortunately as everything seemed to function OK I never noted any details.
> I think Skipstone was the last program I installed.
> Now when I restart the boot sequence hangs at this point:
> 
> 
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> Starting system log daemon: syslogd klogd.
> Starting anac(h)ronistic cron: anacron .
> Starting cannaserver...
> 
> 
> I've tried using a rescue disk to get in and fix the problem (maybe by
> removing cannaserver) but still can't get past this point. Can anyone help??
Try typing linux s at the lilo prompt (you maybe need to press shift
when you see the word LILO)

then you can do dpkg --purge cannaserver

you can alternatively try rescue root=/dev/hda1 (where hda1 is your
root partition)