Cannot start Fedora 2.

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 24.08.2004 schrieb Soo Sip Boon um 4:27:

> Yesterday i have get my Fedora 2 start for the first
> times, it was great to meet the first screen of FC2.
> 
> If you cannot start the fedora, please try the
> following steps:
> 
> 1. Boot your computer from fedora disk 1.
> 2. Type "linux rescue"
> 3. go what ever ask until the console prompt
> 4. your lunux system files should sit on 
>    "cd \mnt\sysimages\"
> 5. again "cd \etc\"
> 6. "vi inittab"
> 7. you are now in vi prompt. thing going crazy here
> because cursor cannot move. you can use "g,h,j,j,l" to
> move a cursor "x to delete" (suppose use shift+I to
> enable edit mode, but i dont know why i can't do that)

I did tell you today: install the vim-common package.

> 8. move to line with id:5:?????????"
> 9. try what ever, to change the 5 to "#"
> 10. Esc then ":wq"
> 11. files saved, restart you computer and boot from
> hard disk this times.
> 12. when machine starting, it will detect error "#"
> and ask you to enter the runlevel. choose "3".

This all is unnecessary.

At grub boot screen just press "a" and append a "3" to the end of the
kernel parameter line (without quotes). That is all to boot into
runlevel 3. Simply.

Alexander


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Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13
Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp 
Serendipity 04:49:51 up 4 days, 32 users, load average: 0.22, 0.41, 0.61
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