According to Wai Lee: 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
H/D into that system, then mount the H/D afte startup, then remove or rename
/var/spool/cron/root
Another way would be, (if you have a local lan with other linux-boxes) use
nfsroot to boot from another machine, that way you could mount you own H/D
after booting and then remove the cron file.
There is possably more ways, but at the minute thats what comes to mind.
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> >According to Wai Lee: While burning my CPU.
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I was trying to modify the crontab to restart the computer at midnight
> >> every night. However, I did something wrong and now whenever the computer
> >> reboot, it would shutdown and reboot again. How can I get into the Linux
> >> to undo what I did? Thanks for your help.
> >>
> >
> >'crontab -e'
> >Will allow you to edit the cron file.
> >
> >If you cant get on with the default editor which is VI, then enter a
> >variable in /etc/profile for your favorite editor.
> >
> >export EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe
> >
> >
> >> Denny Lee
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >--
> >Regards Richard.
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> Denny Lee
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
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Regards Richard.
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