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Guillaume Filion wrote:
> 
> In article <379794A7.D0258E0F@usa.net>, DanH <herrglock@usa.net> wrote:
> 
> > > In comp.security.misc MB <mb50789@pop3.zamnet.zm> wrote:
> > > : Can any one tell what causes the "endless re-boot cycles"  at startup and
> > > : what fixes are available??
> >
> > Buddy of mine found another job (better pay) and took it.  Before he
> > left, he took MY desktop (he's a sysadmin too, so we have root) and put
> > a /etc/rc1.d/S99byebye script there that had one word in it
> >
> > reboot
> >
> > *sheesh*  Glad I made a couple boot Linux disks and that you can mount a
> > UFS drive with one.
> >
> > Some people's children :)
> 
> It's maibe a stupid question, but is there any option to bypass the
> loading of all the gizmos installed, to load just the minimum, kernel and
> filesystem...? Like holding the shift key on MacOS or the F8 key in
> win/dos.
> 
> An option like this would have save you a bunch of time...
> 
> GFK's

That's what boot -s or boot -single is for.  It loads just above the
bare necessities and allows you to do file system maintenance on the
disks.  However, you know how you still have a path even in the barest
of WIN?  Well, there are start up scripts (compiled for WIN) that it
runs to allow that.  It still runs the scripts in /etc/rc1.d.

What he did would be about the equivilant of putting a reboot command in
the starting script for booting WIN95 in the DOS, NO Autoexec.bat, NO
Config.sys script.

He knew I had boot disks and I had tried them for just such an occasion
as I could not get to the drive by standard booting.  He was just giving
me garbage.


Dan
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