On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
> According to Mike Bell: While burning my CPU.
> >
> > > > Hello,
> > > > Thanks for your reply. The problem I am having is that everytime I boot up
> > > > the computer, it would shutdown and reboot. I can't log in to make the
> > > > change. How can I boot the computer without it shutdown and reboot again?
> > > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > You could try;
> > > boot at the lilo prompt type linux 1
> > > That will try to start the system in runlevel 1 it might just work, on the
> > > other hand it might not, i rather think not because crond will possably also
> > > be started.
> > >
> > > Its obviously crontab which is causing the problem.
> > >
> > > If you have an other linux system or a friend with linux, you could put your
> >
> > > There is possably more ways, but at the minute thats what comes to mind.
> >
> > Probably the easiest way is to boot from the disks you used for setup (a
> > boot disk and a root disk), mount your linux partition, and manualy edit
> > the crontab (in /var/spool/cron/crontabs)
> > You may need to create a file called .update.cron or something. I
> > usually keep a version of it with a tildy at the end, for when I want to
> > edit my crontabs manually. But I just upgraded my linux box and its
> > gone, so RTFM or just experiment with anything that looks right.
> >
>
> You must have missed his first reply, he said that does'nt work, the machine
> does'ent stay up long enough even to login.
>
It won't work with just a bootdisk. You will need a bootdisk/rootdisk
combination, lika a Slackware bootdisk, and a Slackware rescue root disk
(this one includes vi and other utilities). I don't know about Red Hat,
but I suppose they have a similar thing.
Frank
> --
> Regards Richard.
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