Help - can't boot

[Claude Jones]

Kevin wrote:

>--- Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
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>>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...
>>
>>
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>At the very first part of the boot sequence, type ¨
>single¨  ie at the boot loader where it says Fedora
>Core2, hit the a key and type in <space> single then
>press enter.  This will boot into single mode and you
>can edit the file from there
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Typing I at the beginning of the boot sequence did it. I'd watched that 
sequence probably hundreds of times, but I'd never noticed/understood 
what 'start service local' meant till just now. That's the command that 
obviously executes the rc.local script. I'm back in, now. Thank you 
everyone for your quick, helpful advice.

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA