I messed up my runlevels

jjorloff1 · 08-16-2004, 02:32 PM

I was editing my runlevels so that my comp would boot faster, and i accidentally disable my keyboard or something i guess, cuz it wont work now, and well i just want my runlevels back to normal. . . and since i cant get into linux i need a way to do this out of linux i think. Does anyone know a way to fix my problem, or help? Thanks

Selebus947

bigrigdriver · 08-16-2004, 02:38 PM

Which file(s) were you editing?

gunter · 08-17-2004, 07:53 AM

Using a linux livecd will get you access to your files.

Knoppix is popular: http://www.knoppix.net/

I use LNX more than Knoppix: http://www.lnx-bbc.org/

Been there, done that.

jjorloff1 · 08-17-2004, 08:39 AM

OH! DUH! lol, i was so stupid, i didnt even think of that, the funny thing is i downloaded knoppix for my friend and the iso's still on my hard drive. Alright, ill give it a shot, thanks.

jjorloff1 · 08-17-2004, 09:13 AM

Another Question. . . . .

Does anyone know what file i will be looking for to edit, because i'm pretty sure illhave to manually go into the file, correct? I just need the runlevel program file, not sure what its called, so if anyone could help it would be appreciated. thanks

gunter · 08-17-2004, 09:16 AM

/etc/inittab is generally used to control runlevels. Don't know if thats what you want.

jjorloff1 · 08-17-2004, 09:45 AM

Ok, well i found what i was looking for. . . in suse you have to link a buncha scripts in the /etc/init.d folder to their respective runlevel folders also in /etc/init.d, but there is a problem i have now encountered. . . i do not have permission to write or change things on my hard drive. I know what file i need to change, but i am not allowed to. Is there any way i can get root permissions on my hard disk through knoppix, or even just the ability to write to my hard drive?

gunter · 08-17-2004, 09:53 AM

I think knoppix automagically mounts partitions (as readonly) for you. You need to unmount your partition and remount it for rw permissions. I don't have knoppix in front of me, but it would be something like 'umount /mnt/hda1' mount -t ext2 (or reiserfs or ext3) /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1'. Without looking at your box, I can't be any more specific, sorry.

jjorloff1 · 08-17-2004, 09:57 AM

its not letting me unmount it says teh device is busy. . .how do i manually kill a device if you have aim. . . .could you im me make this easier? my sn is Selebus947. . .

jjorloff1 · 08-17-2004, 10:08 AM

nvm i was stupid. . .again. . .lol i got it unmounted

gunter · 08-17-2004, 10:09 AM

I can't seem to remember my AIM password. The reason you can't unmount is because you have a file open on the mounted partition or your PWD (preset working directory) is inside the partition. Ensure that you have nothing open type 'cd ~;' and then 'lsof grep yourmount'.

jjorloff1 · 08-17-2004, 10:16 AM

thanks for the help. . it seems i have my problem worked out i will see when i reboot, but right now im working on something else. . . do you by any chance know what filesystem type (instead of subfs) a floppy drive can be set as, cuz in SuSE i compiled kernel 2.6.8.1 and it for some reason subfs does not work, so i changed my cdrom to iso9660 but i dont knwo what to change my floppy to

gunter · 08-17-2004, 10:27 AM

I don't think I have ever heard of subfs. My floppy is set to 'auto'.

LinuxLala · 08-17-2004, 12:01 PM

Yeah just leave your floppy to auto and all should be well

jjorloff1 · 08-17-2004, 04:35 PM

Yeah, i tried auto, and it didnt work. . . it was originally on subfs (which may be a suse thing, but i dont think so, my cdrom was also subfs). im gonna try vfat and ext2 then autofs (i dont know what it is really, but it may work)