Alan Ianson wrote:
Ha. If its running from the startup runlevel then you could always add init=/bin/bash to your command line. But why would you have MySQL in /etc/rcS.d/? Also, you don't need to type out 'single', just S will work fine.On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, dwilliams1066@netscape.net wrote:Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca> wrote:On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, dwilliams1066@netscape.net wrote:I've tried booting off a cd-rom and mounting the disk, but I can't get the disk to mount for some reason. I'm willing to try pretty much anything at this point.My default grub menu list has a "recovery" option. If that option isn't there for some reason edit your grub boot command line and try adding "single" to the end. I've never tried it manually before but I have used the recovery mode a few times and I think that's the only difference.Ah, but there's the problem. I can't log in to edit anything. Is there a way to make a menu come up? (Am I missing something, besides a system prompt of course ;-)At the grub menu, before the kernel boots. Hit a key to stop the default from booting and I believe if you press "e" you can edit the boot command. Just add "single" to the end and then boot that way. That will boot in recovery mode I think. I hope mysql isn't loading in that mode ;). If that doesn't work you may need to boot with a knopix or ubuntu disk and edit whatever needs editing that way.
HTH, Michael Spang