Hello
I have a linux server running 6.1 on a gateway P3 500 with 128 mb memory
that was working properly then noticed that I couldn't telnet or rcp to it
(I could before). Actually, I could telnet and it would connect but would
never serve back the "login" prompt. I tried various things like stopping
and restarting inet services but that did not help.
So I rebooted the machine and it hung....ie. never went down. After waiting
a good 10 to 15 minutes I held my breath and powered it off and on.
It went through all the laborious partition checks of the disk and started
services BUT hung at the "keymap" service and I don't think it is every
coming back. (Incidently, I still can't telnet to the box).
I would like to get to the data on this machine and salvage as much as I
can. Any suggestions how I could go about doing this? Is there some key
stroke to skip starting various services or is the keymap service a required
service? I read it was the keyboard map but the "default keyboard map"
service started fine at the top of the boot process.
Thanks in advance for your time and effort!
Darren
