Dear friends,

I have a problem with starting up or even log into my fedora machine. Previously, I implemented a firewall script and let it run at startup of machine, but for some reason I don't know why maybe my script has problem, now when I start my machine, it hangs whenever it gets to the point in starting iptable service loading firewall...I know maybe I configured something wrong in my script...but i cannot troubleshoot if I cannot even get into the machine. Any way to solve the problem? maybe some way to start the machine without starting the iptables service....

ultimate solution is to reinstall the fc2...since its just my persoanl computer...but in case in future i meet the same problem at work...i hope to be able to solve it.

thanks for taking time reading my mail,

Regards
Fong

Follow these instructions to boot into the Single user or Emergency mode.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...ng-single.html
I believe this will put you into init level 1 which doesn't have networking, so the rc.1 services probably don't start the firewall. However, if you didn't set up the script to run in certain run levels and it runs in all run levels, then try Emergency mode rather than Single. If that fails, boot up using a rescue disk and fix the problem off-line.

Yet another option is to use the kernel boot option: init=/bin/bash

Hi jschiwal,

Thanks a lot for your help!