On Monday April 11 2005 9:47 am, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 22:00 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > 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-) > Yes, I do it frequently... I manage to screw up my system with fair regularity, and this feature has bailed me out repeatedly. > 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: I am very new to Linux, and seldom respond to questions, here. In this case I knew an answer. BUT, I can't say I know how it works, nor do I understand enough about the boot process and what scripts do what, to answer your question - I just know that it works - one caveat is that you have to watch the boot closely, and press that 'I' quickly when it gives you the option. The opportunity is quickly passed. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
