Subject: Re: HELP!
From: Brett Humphreys (bhumphre@cs.ohiou.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2001 - 22:18:00 MST
as a kernal arguments add the word:
'single'
(without the quotes)
this will boot you into single user mode or something likethat. basically
you are root. Change you /etc/inittab back to runlvl 3 and you'll be goldn.
-b
On Tue Jan 02, 2001 at 12:12:27AM -0500, Jonathan Bertsch wrote:
> > I really need some help on this one. For some reason I decited to change my default
> > runlevel to 5, no problem right? Well now it wont boot, it hangs and complains
> > "Warning: unable to open an inital console." I know this is a result of canging the
> > runlevel to 5, but I need to get to the root partition to change it. Is there a kind
> > of rescue image on the install or tasty morusels cd? And if so how can I boot it
> > using yaboot, and then mount / to change the config? Any help will be grealty
> > appreicated!!
>
> --
> -Jonathan Bertsch
> bertsch.13@osu.edu
>
>
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