[aclug-L] Re: How to boot w/o Jaz packs inserted in drives

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Bates, Rod wrote:

> I have a machine with 2 SCSI Jaz drives.  My entries in /etc/fstab
> for these say noauto.  It used to be I could boot without packs
> in the drives, just getting "device not configured" messages, but
> the boot would continue.  

Do the entries also have 0 as the last field? (for 'fsck order').


> 1) query the current run level? 

Good question -- on my system, /var/run/runlevel.dir contains a line
of text that lists what rc.d dir I'm in.


> 2) manually switch to a different run level? 

# init 5
# init 6
# init whatever

-jeff
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