Help - can't boot

[Claude Jones]

Kevin wrote:
| --- Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
|| I've pulled a real bad move. I stuck a three line
|| script into
|| rc.local It just changes directories and calls up a python
|| based server app for spam filtering. My screen just hangs when
|| I get to that part of the boot process. Shelling out just
|| leads to blank
|| screen. I need some way of getting access to
|| rc.local and editing
|| out those commands. Can someone help - I'm lucky in that it's
|| booting enough to provide DHCP and routing services so I can
|| send this email from my laptop.
| 
| Can you <CTRL><ALT><F1> to a terminal and login?
| 

No - it hangs just before it gets to the login screen. CTL-ALT-F1
does nothing. I had an older Knoppix CD here, but it can't read
the drive with /etc on it... I also have an older ver Linux rescue
floppy, but it won't boot...


Claude Jones
Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
Leesburg, VA, USA