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.
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Regards Richard.
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