Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest a tutorial on writing what I think are called init scripts? Take a look at the files in /etc/init.d, just use one of them as a template, and symlink

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good disk recovery company? Thanks in advance, Dave Williams You don't need one for this. Which bootloader are you using, LILO or GRUB? You can pass init=/bin/sh using it. For grub, select the boot menu option,

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread dwilliams1066
This did it!!! I had misunderstood the last lines of this post. (I stupidly missed the in either case. Im back in business. Thank you Bryan! Thank you all! A VERY grateful Dave Williams. Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/30/05, David W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have mentioned, I'm the: Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy from debian-user I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message: E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread dwilliams1066
Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, David W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have mentioned, I'm the:   Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy from debian-user I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message:    E45:  'readonly

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, David W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have mentioned, I'm the: Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy from debian-user I just tried this with vi

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-29 Thread dwilliams1066
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-28 Thread Michael Spang
Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried booting off a cd-rom and mounting the disk, but I can't get the disk to mount for some reason.

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-28 Thread dwilliams1066
Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:     On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:       I've tried booting off a cd-rom and mounting the disk, but I can't

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-28 Thread Michael Spang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-28 Thread dwilliams1066
Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL

I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-27 Thread dwilliams1066
I added a command to run mysqld to bootmisc.sh. Now everything boots fine, but the command that I added to bootmisc.sh runs but doesn't exit, leaving me with a system running mysql but at runlevel 2 (single user mode) . It does not return a prompt so I can't log in and fix the problem. With it

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried booting off a cd-rom and mounting the disk, but I can't get the disk to mount for some reason. I'm willing to try pretty much anything at this point. My default grub menu list has a recovery option. If that option isn't

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-27 Thread dwilliams1066
Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried booting off a cd-rom and mounting the disk, but I can't get the disk to mount for some reason. I'm willing to try pretty much anything at this point. My default grub menu list has a

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried booting off a cd-rom and mounting the disk, but I can't get the disk to mount for some reason. I'm willing to try pretty much