We've had a couple of "Oops!" situations, and have been able to mount the image's DASD to another running Linux image, chroot to it, and make the needed changes to get things back on track. I had also been looking for something similar to the grub boot menu, but nothing like that exists in SLES 8.
-- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation RO-CE-8-857 200 First Street SW 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter 1 Oberparleiter Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 7:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: possible to boot zLinux (SLES8) in different user mode? [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 -- Peter Oberparleiter Linux on zSeries Development IBM Development Lab, Boeblingen/Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
