Today, dsbelile gleaned this insight:
> as a dumbass today i was changing the nice "welcome to red hat" to
> "whazzzzup dsbelile's machine here" in the rc.sysinit and saved
> and extra " in the first "\t\t\t\t"whazzzzup" and now i cant boot
> up..... ive tried to repair it with trinux, i can edit it with vi but it
> seams to stay only in ram..... next i tried loaf linux and the same deal
> so i made a generic kernel boot floppy and did at lilo : linux
> root=/dev/hda5 and it loads rc.sysinit and craps out..... anyone know
> how i an repair rc.sysinit without re-installing ?
Oooh, that smarts! The general gist of it is:
- boot from install floppy
- go through install JUST until you can get a shell on a VC
- mount the root drive somewhere
- fix the file (you may need to run vi off the hard drive)
- reboot the machine
Good luck...
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