On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 22:00 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > Mark Sargent wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > have a script in rc.local that hangs the machine at boot(I was seeing > > if the system here at home would do the same as my work PC, which it > > did, unfortunately). How can I instruct the boot process not to > > process rc.local. Is it possible from the command line to do this, and > > could you tell me what the command would be.? Knoppix3.7 doesn't > > recognize LVM, so I can't mount the partition and make a change to > > rc.local and booting with telinit 3 still gets the hang. Cheers. > > > > Mark Sargent. > > > I just went through this, and reading through the posts, I'm surprised > no one mentioned this: > Right after the kernel is unpacked in the beginning of boot, you get a > dialogue telling you to press 'I' for interactive mode. Do that, and > each command in the bootup gives you a Y/N dialogue. rc.local should be > the very last command, and it will say something like 'start local? Y|N' > pressing N will bypass rc.local. > Claude, Have you tried that and made it work? 8-) This is what I see in rc.sysinit (which gives that message). ------------------------------------- if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup." echo fi ------------------------------------- I don't find anything in the script to ever even read the input, let alone assign the input to a variable or use it. If you can tell me where it is ever assigned/used in the script I would appreciate it. Maybe I can learn something about scripting. :-) Jeff > -- > Claude Jones > Bluemont, VA, USA >
