Help With Linux Boot

Southy · 08-17-2006, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by propagandhi

Hi, whilst I don't use fedora core anymore, and am using ubuntu now, I do recall and interactive startup mode, whereby you can select which services start up during the boot. To do this you keep pressing 'I' when you get to the kernel loading section (like initrd - starting red hat nash etc). Sometimes the delay on interactive startup is like half a second, so make sure you keep tapping 'I'. I missed the first few times not being quick enough so once it work i extended the delay to 5 seconds. In any case this should allow you to choose no to starting the service you've added to the boot sequence, get you in, and then i'd suggest 'undoing' what you've done. If you're not sure how to do that, try webmin to analyse startup services and disable the entry you've added.

I dont have it in front of me right now, but I believe I tried that already and i basically said "no" to everything and that was fine, nothing was booted from the interactive startup and then on the next screen it started to boot my commands, so It wouldnt even let me choice to start them or not, it just does anyways... so I will try again, but I'm guessing I'm S.O.L. arent I?

Is there a way you could hook the drive up as a secondary drive in your computer and read it from windows or somethign and then change the files?

propagandhi · 08-17-2006, 09:39 AM

Something to try is to press CTRL+C when it tries to start loading your commands, try that in both interactive and normal startup. It may not work. Other than that you could use any live cd (ubuntu or otherwise) to mount the partition fedora is on, and then edit the init scripts of fedora, comment out ur commands or remove them altogether. I dont know what partition you chose for fedora but there are drivers for ext2 and ext3 partitions for windows, but my honest opinion, don't try to edit anything that linux uses from xp, you're asking for more trouble, and will most likely only cause more damage.

RoveWolf · 08-17-2006, 09:45 AM

Can XP even read/write to ext formatted drives? I didn't think it could?

propagandhi · 08-17-2006, 10:00 AM

http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html

http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/

QUOTE: Ext2fsd, An ext2 filesystem driver for Windows NT/2K/XP. The most recent version has read-write support.

08-17-2006, 09:39 AM	#12 (permalink)
propagandhi New Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10	Something to try is to press CTRL+C when it tries to start loading your commands, try that in both interactive and normal startup. It may not work. Other than that you could use any live cd (ubuntu or otherwise) to mount the partition fedora is on, and then edit the init scripts of fedora, comment out ur commands or remove them altogether. I dont know what partition you chose for fedora but there are drivers for ext2 and ext3 partitions for windows, but my honest opinion, don't try to edit anything that linux uses from xp, you're asking for more trouble, and will most likely only cause more damage. __________________ I'm still as stupid as anyone but i know my mistakes... http://www.pcmasters.com.au

08-17-2006, 09:45 AM	#13 (permalink)
RoveWolf VIP Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: West Midlands, UK Age: 22 Posts: 1,261	Can XP even read/write to ext formatted drives? I didn't think it could? __________________ Note: Formerly known as Breaks. Thermaltake VC3000BWS Armour Jr SuperMidi Tower - Black Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 V2 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 (PCI-E) Western Digital Caviar RE 160GB SATA-II 16MB Cache Enermax Noisetaker 535W EG565AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) Samsung 18x18 DVD+RW (Black)

08-17-2006, 10:00 AM	#14 (permalink)
propagandhi New Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10	Yes it can http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/ QUOTE: Ext2fsd, An ext2 filesystem driver for Windows NT/2K/XP. The most recent version has read-write support. __________________ I'm still as stupid as anyone but i know my mistakes... http://www.pcmasters.com.au

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