Help With Linux Boot

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Southy

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Hi all,
I have been recently trying to setup a game server on my linux machine. I got it working fine from the GUI console so I thought I would add it to the startup so that if the machine ever shut off, then it would restart the server....

Well, that worked and the server runs on boot, but now the boot sequence stops ( still running the server I assume ) and wont continue to boot to the login screen, so now I cant even login or disable it If I wanted too.

I was just wondering, is there any way that I can cancel it in the boot sequence or get around it somehow so that I can at least get back to the login screen again?
 
Fedore Core 4
How do you boot into safe mode?
I cant even kill the process cause it just hangs in the boot sequence, any ideas?
 
Ok, let me get this clear, you made the server start when your computer starts, but it just hangs up and you cant even make it to the login screen?
 
Exactly, it goes through the process of starting all processes as normal, and I can even go into the interactive setup but the server I setup to load on boat is set to load after all that has loaded it seems, so you cant stop it. It loads the server right before it would load the login screen, but it doesnt make it that far, it loads the server and than hangs. There is nothing you can do but reboot. :(
 
Try knoppix and edit the file again and remove the line for your server. You can also try renaming the dir for your game server until you fix your problem.
 
timothyb89 said:
Try knoppix and edit the file again and remove the line for your server. You can also try renaming the dir for your game server until you fix your problem.
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I dont really want to have to reinstall this or any other distro if I dont have too... And it wont boot to the login screen, so I cant access any of the folders in order to stop/change or rename anything or else I would have done that by now :(

krimson_king said:
can you run it with the distro in the drive and set cdrom to first in the boot order?
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Fedore Core 4 does not have a live cd, and that wouldnt fix my problem anyways... to answer your question though, yes I can boot the install disks but I dont know what much good that will do either..... any suggestions?
 
Interactive startup

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.
 
propagandhi said:
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.
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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?
 
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.
 
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