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. > > 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. -- Regards, Peter.
