Re: emergency action
Fundamental wrote:
>
> im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i
> somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from
> rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my
> changes?
>
> For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, when it
> gets to the configuration screen i can cntrl break out of it into a shell
> and hack around at will, is this possible on a debian box?
>
> thanks
>
Well, you just do the same thing you would for Solaris, except that
instead of a CD you have to boot with you have disks. Debian also
has the option of exiting to a shell you do the install. At that
point you should be able to mount any filesystems and edit things
as necessary to get everything back in order.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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