According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU.
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> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Richard Adams wrote:
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> > According to Mike Bell: While burning my CPU.
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> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > Thanks for your reply. The problem I am having is that everytime I boot up
> > > > > the computer, it would shutdown and reboot. I can't log in to make the
> > > > > change. How can I boot the computer without it shutdown and reboot again?
> > > > > Thanks.
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> > > > You could try;
> > > > boot at the lilo prompt type linux 1
> > > > That will try to start the system in runlevel 1 it might just work, on the
> > > > other hand it might not, i rather think not because crond will possably also
> > > > be started.
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> > > > Its obviously crontab which is causing the problem.
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> > > > If you have an other linux system or a friend with linux, you could put your
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> > > > There is possably more ways, but at the minute thats what comes to mind.
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> > > Probably the easiest way is to boot from the disks you used for setup (a
> > > boot disk and a root disk), mount your linux partition, and manualy edit
> > > the crontab (in /var/spool/cron/crontabs)
> > > You may need to create a file called .update.cron or something. I
> > > usually keep a version of it with a tildy at the end, for when I want to
> > > edit my crontabs manually. But I just upgraded my linux box and its
> > > gone, so RTFM or just experiment with anything that looks right.
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> > You must have missed his first reply, he said that does'nt work, the machine
> > does'ent stay up long enough even to login.
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> It won't work with just a bootdisk. You will need a bootdisk/rootdisk
> combination, lika a Slackware bootdisk, and a Slackware rescue root disk
> (this one includes vi and other utilities). I don't know about Red Hat,
> but I suppose they have a similar thing.
Rescue disk in this case, as using a normal root/bootdisk and entering the
command 'mount /dev/hda!' will result in the system still starting into its
default runlevel, therefor starting cron which seems to be reseting his
computer, (he said he had made a mistake in his crontab file) which reboots
the computer every X seconds.
I must realy appolagise for telling him to use the mount option, i did not
check first, however he has replyed to me personaly thanking me for the given
advice, but there was no mention of weather the problem is solved.
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> Frank
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> > --
> > Regards Richard.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Regards Richard.
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