Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!
Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org> wrote:
>dwilliams1066@netscape.net wrote:
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>>Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org> wrote:
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>>>Alan Ianson wrote:
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>>>>On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, dwilliams1066@netscape.net wrote:
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>>>>>Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>>>>>On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, dwilliams1066@netscape.net wrote:
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>>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>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 ;-)
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>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?
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>>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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>Are you using LILO or GRUB? As another post said, with GRUB you will
>have a menu on boot with a list of options, pressing 'e' on the desired
>option will allow you to add to the command line. With LILO you have to
>press something else. If all else fails you can use Knoppix to remove
>the offending startup script.
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>HTH,
>Michael Spang
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I've tried to use Knoppix to boot the machine, which it did, but I couldn't mount the disk, which is /dev/sda1. Would the fact that the logical disk is /dev/sda1, while it's actually a RAID (just mirroring) array possibly make a difference?
Dave Williams
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