On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 22:39:01 +0200
"paradoxreturns"
Hi;
I have Suse 8.0 pro , last 2 weeks i can't boot. After kernel loaded and hardisks detected when Suse want to detect firewall (initial) [original sentence is: Starting personal-firewall (initial) ] Suse freezes and nothing happen. I can type console but boot sequence doesn't continue. How can I rescue system ? I think initial firewall is iptables.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Yeah, you are kindof in a catch-22: you can't use the rescue cdrom to "boot an installed system"; because it would give you the same error. This is what I would do, but others may have a better method. What you can do is boot from cd, and choose "start rescue system". Or you can give the "single" option to the linux boot prompt. Then once you are booted, mount your root partition, like mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt then cd to /mnt/etc/init.d mkdir bak mv SuSEfirewall* bak that will get all the firewall scripts out of the init.d directory so it won't be found on boot. Then you can do a normal boot, turn off starting the firewall at boot, and move the scripts out of bak into init.d Then work on why the hanging is occuring, check the logs. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation