On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:44:35AM -0500, Chris Earle (CBL) wrote: > Hi all, > > hard for me to explain this, but it keeps happening on a number of machines > > I attempt to upgrade zaptel, or do something to zaptel modules..... and then > I reboot the machine, and for whatever reason, it hangs on loading the > modules > > Either the install wasn't complete, the zaptel modules settings are wrong, > whatever.... > but the problem is now I can't get past the boot up and the machine is > basically lost > > Is there any way to bypass the module load attempt or anything? > > I've tried holding SHIFT down to get the LILO menu, and loading LinuxOLD, > but no go > > I'm on Debian 2.4.18, with Zaptel 1.0.9.2
For starters, upgrade kernel? Anyway, In the lilo prompt, write: Linux init=/bin/bash (that is: add the extra parameter init=/bin/bash ) This will boot the system and give you a shell before loading any modules. Now in there, run: mount -o remount,rw / and probably also: mount /proc Do whatever edits are required so the zaptel modules won't load (editing /etc/modules, or even moving the module files from the kernel dir) , and then: umount /proc mount -o remount,ro / exec /sbin/init The boot process should continue normlly (this is /sbin/init running as process 1). -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
