On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: > im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i > somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from > rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my > changes? > > For instance, on a solaris machine i just stick my boot disk/cd in, when it > gets to the configuration screen i can cntrl break out of it into a shell > and hack around at will, is this possible on a debian box?
>From LILO boot prompt (press shift when LILO comes up) type "linux emergency" This will put it into single user runlevel. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.southeast.net/~servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]