boot failure

[David C. Hacker, DVM]

Try using less -w

David C. Hacker, DVM
212 N 1st St #2
New Salem, ND 58563
(701) 843-8179
On Apr 24, 2004, at 8:38 AM, Thomas Sorensen wrote:

> on 4/23/04 10:50 AM, Norberto Quintanar at nquintanar@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Yes, you assume correctly on where to type in single.  I don't know
>> what's going on with your situation, if it's forcing you to go to
>> runlevel 5.  Have you tried typing rescue or emergency?  If you can
>> get to a command prompt using one of those two methods then change
>> your /etc/inittab file to run level 3.  When you open the file edit
>> the line that reads
>>
>> id:5:initdefault:
>>
>>
>> change the 5 to a 3 save close and reboot.  Then try the fix I gave
>> you earlier to configure X.
>>
>> YMMV
>> Norberto
>> --- Thomas Sorensen <tomsor@comcast.net> wrote:
>> === message truncated ===
>> I assume when you say at the BootX prompt you are refering to the box
>> on the lower left that says Kernel exceptions or something of that
>> sort. When I typed single in there the system reboots into user mode
>> 3 initally but as I was reading the lines of script during start up
>> about halfway through I see another line that says
>> rebooting/resetting to user mode 5 and then eventually we are back to
>> the same point again. Have you had any experience with mklinux boot
>> loader it seems to have more options for exceptions and revisions
>> using lilo? Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Thanks again for your help, this is really becoming a struggle. If I 
> put
> single in the box and then boot into linux when I get to the "Welcome 
> to
> Yellow Dog" part with the green "OK" boxes I get a script line that 
> says
> "sh-2.05b# and it stops there, the only way I have been able to get 
> past
> this is to type exit and then everything contines to load as normal, 
> resets
> to level 5 and I am eventually back to the localhost login screen. If I
> login as root the only way I can get to the /etc/inittab you mentioned 
> is to
> proceed it with less and then about the tenth line down has the id you
> mentioned but it won't let me edit this. Please excuse my ignorance of 
> the
> linux platform and command line prompts but we all have to start 
> somewhere
> and I didn't think this would be such an ordeal.
>
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