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#1 2009-07-23 05:05:33

celtic426
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[SOLVED] How to edit rc.conf from outside Arch

I rearranged my daemons in my /etc/rc.conf in a bad way so that gdm starts before hal and some other things.  This was not a good idea because now I cannot login as my keyboard and mouse do not work when I boot up. 

How can I edit my rc.conf from outside arch?  Some kind of live cd or something?  Thanks.

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#2 2009-07-23 05:14:10

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Re: [SOLVED] How to edit rc.conf from outside Arch

celtic426 wrote:

I rearranged my daemons in my /etc/rc.conf in a bad way so that gdm starts before hal and some other things.  This was not a good idea because now I cannot login as my keyboard and mouse do not work when I boot up. 

How can I edit my rc.conf from outside arch?  Some kind of live cd or something?  Thanks.

Use the Arch live cd?


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#3 2009-07-23 05:20:39

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Re: [SOLVED] How to edit rc.conf from outside Arch

You might login on console mode, just edit grub and add 3 to end of kernel line.
That it could be done by pressing 'e' while grub starts up, then point to the kernel line and press 'e' again to edit that line. Once you're done, press 'b' to boot.

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#4 2009-07-23 05:31:37

euLinux
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Re: [SOLVED] How to edit rc.conf from outside Arch

you can simply boot with the Archlinux installation cd.
once boot ends (and before starting installation procedure) follow these steps:

mkdir /mnt/celtic #create a mount point

mount /dev/sd3 /mnt/celtic # mount partition: change /dev/sda3 with the name of partition where you installed root (/)...

cd /mnt/celtic/etc # move to /etc

nano rc.conf #edit your rc.conf

hope this can help you...

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#5 2009-07-23 05:36:23

celtic426
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Re: [SOLVED] How to edit rc.conf from outside Arch

euLinux wrote:

you can simply boot with the Archlinux installation cd.
once boot ends (and before starting installation procedure) follow these steps:

mkdir /mnt/celtic #create a mount point

mount /dev/sd3 /mnt/celtic # mount partition: change /dev/sda3 with the name of partition where you installed root (/)...

cd /mnt/celtic/etc # move to /etc

nano rc.conf #edit your rc.conf

hope this can help you...

Ah, that's what I need...Thank you so much!


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