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Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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Need to boot up with a linux bootable CD. I would think the Install would give you an option like a rescue mode and then mount the current distro partitions in its own /mnt. But that is probably just a Redhat / Redhat clone feature. One way is to use a Live distro CD like Knoppix, Kubuntu, and many others. There are some other smaller boot ISO cd like http://freshmeat.net/projects/systemrescuecd/ that can help.
You can use the Slackware boot CD too, no need for Knoppix.
Boot to the prompt, mount your Slackware root partition, fix the problem, reboot without the CD.
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
Posts: 5,700
Rep:
My guess once the system is up you can mount the partition that contains the /etc subdirectory like so.
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
cd /mnt/etc
vi rc.modules
Not sure where rc.modules exist on Slackware so you need to change to its location.
Now change /hda1 to what ever the partition is whether /hda2, /hda3, /hdb1, /sda1,or so many more. You just need to know which partition contains /etc.
Fair enough, the sad part was I did exactly that before I came on here and had no luck, got an error about not being able to open the file even though I could navigate to it.
But of course worked flawlessy after trying it again now after your instruction.
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