Unfriendly 'Mounting remote filesystems' problems
It seems that If one screws up /etc/fstab in any way-- or if one screws up
the network support in any way and makes the mistake of rebooting the
machine, it comes up to 'mounting remote filesystems' and, effectively,
locks up.
Because of the run level, there is no way to jump to another virtual
terminal or to log in as root. As a result, the only way to 'save' the
system is to reboot with the Boot/Root installation disks, jump to a virtual
terminal, fix the fstab to NOT do network mounting, then reboot the damned
system, fix the REAL problem, and reboot the system yet again.
Two questions:
1) Is there a single-user boot? Ie; under NEXTSTEP, if I specify '-s' to
the booter, it [if enabled] will boot the machine into a single-user mode
without initializing any of the network stuff or mounting any filesystems.
2) Could Ctrl-C or some other magic key be enabled such that, if the
machine locks up at a particular step during the boot, one could effectively
cancel the initialization of that piece?
Obviously, both options come with security implications. Though-- in both
cases, as long as it leads to a login prompt, the 'implications' should not
be any worse than a normal boot?
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I'm a bit frustrated-- this is the THIRD time I have had to boot using the
boot/root disks to fix a problem... Damn, I really, really wish we had a
GPL'd implementation of Netinfo for Linux [or ANY implementation of
Netinfo].
b.bum
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