Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[Trey Gruel <drathos-suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 dog@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> reboot using the install cdrom, at the boot prompt, type manual
> then choose your screen type and keyboard type, go to start installation
> and select the rescue mode.  this will get you into your machine. you will
> have to mount the drives manually and such.  i dont think the problem is
> with your /etc/rc.config file being corrupt - its only a text file and a
> typo or something in it should only cause a service or two not to start or
> something.

ok..  i was able to boot into rescue mode using the cd, and put the
previous version of the rc.config file in place of the new one (which did
somehow become a binary file), but i still can't boot past mounting /proc
and /dev/pts..  i checked the boot.log and boot.msgs in the real fs (after
mounting in the rescue system) and they don't show anything from the
attempts to boot that are failing..

any more suggestions would be appreciated..

--trey