Re: [ts-7000] How to Bypass/Edit Startup Script (rcS.sysinit)

[Eddie Dawydiuk <>]

Hello,

> I am in a sticky situation.  I wanted to run a program at startup, so
> I called the program from /etc/rC.d/rcS.sysinit.  However, the program
> runs forever.  I thought I would be able to ctrl-c out of it, but
> alas, no.  It runs in the foreground, causing the console to hang.
>
> Basically, I just need to get to the main login prompt so I can fix
> things, but (I am fairly new to this) I don't know how to get there.
> I have played around with redboot a bit, but no luck.

>From redboot use the standard load and exec commands, but append
init=/bin/sh to the exec line. This will drop you to a shell without
running the startup sciprts.

//Eddie


 
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