Thanks, Richard. Its great to have access to my Linux again.
Richard Adams wrote:
>
>
> Hello John.
> As to why you cant login, it would seem you are either not giving the
> correct passwd, or the passwd field in /etc/passwd for root is not empty,
>
> If you have LILO installed on your H/D and have "timeout=xx" defined, you
> can do the following;
>
> LILO: init 1 <enter>
This gave me "No such image" , then it went to the RedHat login screen and
stuck as before
> If you cant enter boot params at the LILO prompt you will need to use the
> rescue disk(s), at the LILO: prompt type;
>
> mount root=/dev/hda?
> Where hda? is the number of the device which contains the "/" root
> filesystem.
I tried the boot disk that came with RedHat 5.1 . That gave me "could not find
kernel image : mount. loading boot failed".
But then the boot disk that I made as directed at installation time, worked. I
got to my regular Xwindowa-Afterstep screen. Then I edited the first line of
/etc/passwd and took out the text between the two carets and rebooted ok.
My locate and find commands still do not work. There is another problem I have
not mentioned. aa6vn.ampr.org will not respond to incoming smtp or http
requests. This started about the same time as the other problems around Jan 2.
I have gone thru everything I can think of and find no clues as to what is
wrong. Hope you can give me some ideas on what to check. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
