[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hello,
>
> is it possible to boot zLinux (SLES8) in different user mode (2)? We're
> having the problem that a process is hanging during startup,
unfortunately
> before the sshd daemon gets started...

Newer distributions support a boot menu which can be activated at IPL time
to specifiy an additional command line parameter. Unfortunately, as far as
I know, this feature is not available on SLES8 systems.

You could try either of the following:

1. from a console terminal, enter ^-i
This will attempt to call the magic sysrequest function "kill all tasks".
If magic sysrq is enabled and the task that is hanging does not respawn,
this might help get past the problem

2. IPL another Linux system, mount the disk of the Linux system that has
the problem, edit /etc/inittab to use a different runlevel, restart the
Linux system

Hope this helps.


Regards,
  Peter Oberparleiter

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Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on zSeries Development
IBM Development Lab, Boeblingen/Germany

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