Miquel van Smoorenburg [miquels@cistron.nl] wrote: > In article <[🔎] 20031218212927.GA4110@mcelrath.org>, > Bob McElrath <bob+debian@mcelrath.org> wrote: > >After upgrading a few packages (that pulled in an unstable init and > >sysvinit scripts) my machine hangs on bootup right after the line: > > Starting Bootlog daemon: > >which is followed by the "adding swap space" on the same line. (This is > >from memory -- the machine won't boot past this point) > > Bootlogd is not suitable for general use yet, as has now been > proven. 2.85-8 will disable bootlogd by default. Do you know a way I can get init to not load bootlogd so I can repair my machine? Perhaps by passing some kind of arguments to the kernel? I am having considerable difficulty booting off CD-roms (my cd-rom is SCSI and my SCSI driver does not seem to be included by default in the debian boot cd kernels). Cheers, Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
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