Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org> wrote:
Alan Ianson wrote:
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.
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.
HTH,
Michael Spang
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It is running from the startup run level, but how do I add
init=/bin/bash if I can't get a system prompt from the system?
To take another angle on this, I have booted the system under Knoppix, but
when I try to mount the disk, it says "/dev/sda1 NOT A BLOCK DEVICE".
Is there any way to get the system to cough up what it thinks the device
name of the disk is?
Dave Williams
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