[ale] Mandriva upgrade problem

[Mark Wright]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:45:12 -0600
Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

stall disks?
> 
> 
> I thought that the mandrake install disks came with a "rescue" mode.
> Try looking at the help that comes up at the boot prompt..

Well ,I know they used to but I could not do it with these.

> 
> Alternatively, it seems like your mandrake kernel is okay, just smb is
> broken. Try booting into RL 1. If you use LILO to boot then enter,
> probably, "linux 1" at the boot prompt. If you use grub then type 'e'
> to edit the boot command, and put '1' at the end of the line. I
> think--I haven't done it often with grub.
> 
> That should boot you to RL 1 where you can stop the network mount from
> happening.
> 
> Michael

I couldn't remember how to ipl without going to rl 5 but I did think of
it after I sent this email.  I'm going to play with it tonite and I'll
let you know.


Mark