On 2020.02.15 14:16, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday, 14 February 2020 20:03:00 GMT Colleen Beamer wrote:
I have an older computer with Gentoo on it. I haven't updated it in
quite a while because it necessitates a full reinstall and up until
recently, I haven't had the time to devote to this. It is mostly
backuped up on an external hard drive so, it what I'm asking can't
be done, that's okay.
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There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL. During the boot
process when it comes to the loading of MySQL it hangs. Is there a
way to bypass the loading of MySQL so the computer will complete
booting and I can make sure I've gotten everything that I want off
of it before I wipe it?
Have you tried setting rc_interactive="YES" in /etc/rc.conf? Then you
can interrupt the boot process, and learn of several scripts that you
didn't know were run.
I'm assuming an openrc system, of course.
I'm not the OP, but I recently had a similar situation - total freeze
early during the boot process. What I wanted was a way to get that
rc_interactive="YES" behavior - but by doing something at boot time.
Otherwise, I needed to boot a live CD/DVD/thumb, edit rc.conf, and
reboot. I was able to boot adding init=/bin/bash to the kernel command
line, but then even though I could do "openrc sysinit" then "openrc
boot" and then start "default" services individually, it took longer,
since I had to try to figure out in what order services would have been
started.
I wonder if booting with init=/bin/bash, editing rc.conf, and then
doing "exec /sbin/init" would then put the system in a state (with
proc 1 being init) as if it had booted normally, but with an
interactive startup?
Jack
