I'm guessing that you don't realize that "sh-2.05#" is shell prompt.
You're not hung...you're at a command prompt. Type: "vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0" and change the "ONBOOT" line as was suggested below. On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Katrin Koumpikova wrote: > Hi All, > After trying to configure my modem and the dial up connection to the Internet I can >no longer boot my Red Hat 7.2. It hangs on Bringing up ppp0. Below are the emails I >found and I tried to follow the instructions for changing ifcfg-ppp0 after booting >using: linux emergency. The problem is that the ifcfg-ppp0 file is system and read >only. I checked it's attributes and it has rw but when I open it in vi, it firts >tells me "Unable to open swap file for recovery". After that I can do the changes >just fine but when I try to exit vi and save the changes (:w!) it says ifcfg-ppp0 >Can't open file for writing. I tried to copy or rename the file but the system >wuoldn't let me do it saying: Read only file system. > After that I tried booting Linux using: linux single but it hang on sh-2.05. > > What else can I try? Please help! > > Katrin > > > <snip> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, BUDINATA,KEVIN (HP-Singapore,ex2) wrote: > > > Hi.... > > > > After some lab test for kppp configuration, my system hang during > > "Bringing up interface ppp0" > > How to solve this or skip this process and recover it back ? > > > > -Kevin- > > > At a guess, I would try booting into the single user mode, and editing > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0. Change ONBOOT=yes to > ONBOOT=no. > > Mikkel > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
