The shame of it

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> Graham == Graham Spearing <gspearing [at] freenet.co.uk> writes:

Graham> When the system (Mandrake 6.0) boots it seems to go OK
Graham> then hangs once it gets to 'Starting Local'.

Graham> This has got soemthing to do with rc.local?

Seemingly. But I dunno Mandrake.

Graham> What do I do? The rescue disk seems to do a kernel panic
Graham> and self combusts...

That's not good, both being weird suggests a hardware issue on the
motherboard. But keep you fingers crossed. (Did you ever use the
rescue disk before? Maybe the floppy's hosed.)

I assume your main system boots with LILO? Get to the boot: prompt (I
think you hit the Left Shift key while L I L O is printing) and type
linux single RET. This should prevent the system daemons from
getting loaded and dump you directly into a root shell (maybe
requiring a password, that varies by distro). Then you can figure out
what's in rc.local, or wherever.

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