Re: How to recover from a bad system?

Aaron M. Ucko (amu@mit.edu)
10 Jan 1998 02:25:10 -0500


"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.

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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]