boot failure

[Jeff Folk]

Yes, you should use vi or pico as root to edit the file.

Jeff

On Apr 27, 2004, at 7:39 PM, Thomas Sorensen wrote:

> OK I believe what you are saying and he admits he has no experience 
> with a
> Mac or YDL and is just trying to help. My question to you is why won't 
> the
> etc/inittab allow me to edit it, do I need to open it in another 
> program to
> make the change to level 3, when I use less /etc/inittab it seem to be 
> more
> of a read only program. One other observation if I type single in the 
> kernel
> exceptions I get to a command line promp of sh-2.05b# and it won't go 
> any
> further. I'm sorry to have offended anyone by my lack of Linux 
> knowledge and
> have posted also on the newbie list but got no responses, I thought 
> the idea
> of the mailing list was to help other people out and try to expand 
> Linux
> usage. Thanks