I had a nasty morning this morning. I had bought a cheap PCI serial card to try to diagnose and/or fix the problem documented in:
http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20020617/008541.html Somehow, when I installed it, something happened to the network card - probably related to a hardware bulletin from IBM documenting a problem. Here's the problem: when openAFS starts up and can't find a network card, it hangs, constantly recycling the message "AFS: lost contact with..." where ... is one of the afs database servers. That means I can't boot with a broken network card. So, I tried booting to the rescue disk, then doing: linux single root=/dev/hda3 which looked promising until it constantly recycled the error about not being able to create ksymoops because it's a read-only file system. I had to hard-reset to get out of that. The only spare network card I had around was a 3Com, for which the driver wasn't in my kernel, so I couldn't toss it in. What I ended up doing was booting the rescue disk all the way to the beginning of the installation procedure, then using Alt-F2 to get a virtual console. I could then mount my normal root partition and edit /etc/init.d/openafs-client to insert an exit 0 at the beginning. A reboot then gave me access to the system, enough to build and install the 3Com driver. This seems silly. Is there an easy/accessible way, preferably through LILO, to boot into single-user mode with few, if any, daemons running? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
