To all who responded:
I am back home and got the machine cleaned up so that it
boots normally. Now to try and get ipchains working
correctly with dynamically assigned addresses.
Thanks again,
Bob
Denis R wrote:
>
> I assume that you still have your RH installation disk. Go to your Windoze
> machine, put the disk in, and create a bootable linux disk:
> E:\dosutils\rawrite.exe E:\images\boot.img (from your DOS prompt, and E is
> your CD-ROM drive letter).
>
> Once the bootable floppy disk is created with the default kernel, your will
> be able to get to your file system and modify rc.local file. Just boot off
> this floppy and you are all set.
>
> HTH,
> DR
>
> PS all other methods suggested earlier work too (single mode, interactive
> boot etc.). And keep that floppy for another rainy day :-)
>
> >>>>>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 23:15:02 -0600
> From: Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: redhat-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Attempt at rc.firewall with ipchains - Now can't boot
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Here goes the newbie again - I believe that this is a "duh"
> situation. I write a ipchains firewall based on Ziegler's
> book. When I went to reboot the process hangs at "lo" and I
> think that I have blocked the computer from it's own local
> port.
>
> The question: How to get going again. My current plan is
> to do an upgrade with the original RH 6.2 CD hoping that the
> rc.firewall which is called from rc.local will not run if
> rc.local is replaced and the orininal installed version is
> saved as a copy. I'm not sure that this will happen, but is
> there any other way around this dilemma. Don't ask for the
> rescue disk because my office manager, not realising what it
> was and needing a floppy reformated it and used in an a
> Windows machine :(((((((((
>
> I have other questions regarding dhcpd for another post.
>
> TIA
>
> Bob
>
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