Re: Unfriendly 'Mounting remote filesystems' problems
> 1) Is there a single-user boot?
There are two. Append the word "single" to get single-user, and the word
"emergency" to run just a shell and no rc scripts at all.
> 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?
I think If you put "< /dev/console" after a command in the rc script, that
command gets the console as its controlling tty. This is something you do
_not_ want to do for a daemon process, however it _may_ be appropriate for
"mount". Experiment.
> 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].
They call it SNMP. Netinfo was a lot better.
Bruce
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