Error after editing /etc/rc/rc.local, Fedora freezes when tries to run the script

simeandrews · 06-23-2005, 09:41 AM

Hey everyone, I just got my wireless interent working, but I screwed it up when I tried to put it in startup. I added a few things (/sbin/iwconfig ath0 key restricted XXXX..., /sbin/ifconfig ath0 up /sbin/dhclient, and somwthing else I don't remember) to /etc/rc/rc.local (i think that's the path), and now after Fedora loads wine, it freezes, because it tries to start the script. I think I need to boot into failsafe, can someone tell me how? I'm using FC4 and Grub, and it was a fresh install, so the latest v of grub.

dgar · 06-24-2005, 10:52 AM

At the grub menu screen, press 'a' to append.
Then <space>1, then <enter>

Or, in english, append '1' as the last space delimited paramter to be passed to the kernel.

This should get you into runlevel 1, maintenance mode.

From here you can back out the error in /etc/rc.local.