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On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:22 am, Julian Hall wrote:
This morning I booted the desktop and it hangs at the stage of mounting any NFS devices. Usually if the laptop (the only NFS devices I use) is not connected at boot it will just skip that giving errors and complete the boot just not having connected to the laptop.
This can happen with NFS mounts IF you don't unmount the device before shutting down the other machine. You may be able to telnet / ssh into the Mandrake box - it depends which other services have been started prior to NFS - or you can use the boot loader options to load Linux single. Apologies for the extremely long URL, http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html You could do the simple thing and Google for lilo single http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lilo%20single&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 It's the first link at the moment. Same google page also gives this help: http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_sec/06252002/pf_index.html Which refers to something already on the DCGLUG website: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/wiki/?id=LinuxTips Protect your system using LILO Root password failure When you're done, setup a LILO password as in the Tips and prevent someone else getting root access to your box this easily. Alternatively if you can't get LILO to pause and give you the boot prompt, load Knoppix and then temporarily remove the link in /etc/rc5.d/ to the nfs script to stop it loading next boot, don't forget to put it back with cd /etc/rc5.d/ ln -s ../init.d/nfswhatever Sxx etc.
Is there any way to bypass it so that I can boot fully and fix whatever is wrong?
Once in, inspect the running processes (ps waux) and kill the NFS process(es): kill 0000 (the process ID as listed by ps). -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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