On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
> Rescue disk in this case, as using a normal root/bootdisk and entering the
> command 'mount /dev/hda!' will result in the system still starting into its
> default runlevel, therefor starting cron which seems to be reseting his
> computer, (he said he had made a mistake in his crontab file) which reboots
> the computer every X seconds.
>
Please wait a minute here! If he uses from boot _AND_ root floppies, the
root disk will be mounted as the '/' directory. It means /etc will be
taken from the root floppy, which does not have the wrong crontab entries.
Whatever hdd's he mounts using 'mount' will not change this.
So, after booting, he could mount the original / partition at some point
and edit the crontab in it.
