Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to recover from a bad system? | From | (Aaron M. Ucko) | Date | 10 Jan 1998 02:25:10 -0500 |
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"Hongwei Li" <hongwei@morpheus.wustl.edu> writes:
> I accidentally made a mistake during configuration of my network -- > selected 3c59x instead of 3c509, and the system hangs after rebooting (after > the message eth0...). It was too late that I realize this. Now, I have the > original boot/root disks created from the distribution (Slackware 3.3, > kernel 2.0.30), and the LILO boot disk. I tried to boot from them, but can > not run vi to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules -- vi not found. What should I do? > Boot from the original boot/root disks or from LILO boot disk? How to run > vi?
You can boot in single-user mode by typing "linux single" at the LILO prompt.
-- Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
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