Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!
dwilliams1066@netscape.net wrote:
>Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org> wrote:
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>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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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>>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.
>>
>>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?
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>Dave Williams
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Can anyone recommend a good disk recovery company?
Thanks in advance,
Dave Williams
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