[Gloucs] RedHat 8 won't boot

[Glyn Davies]

Joe Stanbrook wrote:

>Thanks Tim,
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>I can't get it to login using the shell, it displays the login prompt but that is replaced by the error message 
>before I have a chance to login
>
>Joe
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Joe,

Have you tried booting the machine in single user mode (apologies if I 
haven't watched the thread closely enough)? If you have LILO as your 
boot loader and it comes up with a LILO splash screen hit CTRL-X to get 
to the LILO console and type (IIRC) linux -s

You should end up and a root shell. From there, my guess is that you 
need to edit /etc/inittab such that the entry that says

id:5:initdefault:

now says

id:3:initdefault:

I would then reboot and hopefully when the machine returns you will have 
a console login.

Run level 5 is X11 while 3 is just multiuser Linux.

If you don't have LILO and have GRUB instead, at the initial GRUB screen 
type 'e' (for edit) and (then maybe 'e' again) add the -s to the kernel 
line. Then 'b' to boot.

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Best Regards
Glyn Davies