On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:08:42, Bob McElrath wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >After upgrading a few packages (that pulled in an unstable init and > > >sysvinit scripts) my machine hangs on bootup right after the line: > > > Starting Bootlog daemon: > > >which is followed by the "adding swap space" on the same line. (This is > > >from memory -- the machine won't boot past this point) > > > > Bootlogd is not suitable for general use yet, as has now been > > proven. 2.85-8 will disable bootlogd by default. > > Do you know a way I can get init to not load bootlogd so I can repair my > machine? Perhaps by passing some kind of arguments to the kernel?
No simple way. You can boot with the "-b" option which tells init not to execute any script but just put you in a shell, or you can use "init=/bin/sh" which will cause the kernel to launch a shell instead of init. In both cases the rootfs is then read-only, you need to mount it read/write and then for example mv /etc/init.d/bootlogd /etc/init.d/bootlogd.OFF Then umount the rootfs again and reboot (reboot -f). Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
