[clug] Startup problem
Steve
sunpower at pobox.com
Sun Apr 11 05:45:19 GMT 2004
Thanks Eyal,
I was using rh7.2 and grub. I went through all the commands that grub
offers but unless I have missed something out I couldn't find a command
to use which would get me to single user text mode. Sorry if my
ignorance is showing. Forcing an error as I did by removing the RAID
card may not be elegant but at least linux is smart enough to know
something is wrong and gives you two choices; login as root or Ctrl D to
reboot. I logged in and solved my problem that way.
Thanks again for your support.
Steve.
Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Thanks very much for the help.
>>
>> Ctrl Alt F1/F2 had no effect I'm afraid and I was not able to get
>> into single user mode.
>
>
> You can go into single user mode by typing something like
> linux single
> at the bootup prompt. I think RH 7.1 uses lilo which give you
> a "lilo:" prompt, where you type the above command.
>
> The default it probably "linux" which automatically runs after
> a short wait for a user command. If I recall correctly then you
> can hit the Tab key and lilo displays all the available boot
> setups (which "linux" is one of).
>
> It is not a bad idea to find out how to do it now, rather that
> when you have a problem next time.
>
> --
> Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
>
>
>
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