Re: The shame of it

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:49:48PM -0000, Graham Spearing wrote:
>
> When the system (Mandrake 6.0) boots it seems to go OK then hangs once it
gets to 'Starting Local'.
> This has got soemthing to do with rc.local?

Uhm... I'm not too sure about this. It might well be. I know
that rc.local is the first thing INIT does. So you get something like
INIT version 2.78 starting (along these lines anyway), and then you get
rc.local executed. This among other things, sets the host's name, and
looks for module dependencies. Even if you go into single (as suggested
by someone), rc.local would be executed.

Basically, if you see the usual messages ŕ la...
I have done this [OK]
the [OK] being in a beatiful green colour :), you've started rc.local.

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

Same happened here with Mandrake yesterday. The rescue disk
might be knackered, and if so, it's no good. Try booting into single
user mode as suggested and see if that gives you a shell. After all,
you'll be going into runlevel 1 (as opossed to 3, me thinks...). If that
won't work, easiest thing to do is to download mulinux (A minimalistic
Linux distribution in one disk) from http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux, and
use that as your rescue disk. You might also use tomsrtb or however you
call that one :) Start up from the floppy, and then create a directory
where you can mount your root partition (or wherever /etc sits). Do so
with say mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /tmp/my_disk. Now you can fiddle around
here with your rc.d scripts. I'll be willing to provide more information
if you can give me more detailed info on what's going on.

Regards,
José

--
José L Gómez Dans PhD student
Radar Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK

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