Re: Help! I fallen and I can't reboot!

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, dlangschied wrote:

> Hi all!
> Late last week I put out a peg message stating that I could not get past
> pcmcia with my network connected.  If I disconnect the network, I can boot.
> I then merely reconnect and active eth0.  Someone had suggested that I put
> in a static IP.  I did that today and now I cannot get past pcmcia with or
> without my network connected.  I am essentially dead in the water.  Please
> help!

have you tried the "interactive" boot option?  where you press "i"
early in the boot process, and you get to interactively start each
service.  just bypass the one that's giving you trouble, and mess
with it after the system comes up.

at least, that's a start.

rday

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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies
Unix, Linux and Open Source training
Waterloo, Ontario

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