Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

[Jack]

On 2020.02.15 14:16, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 14 February 2020 20:03:00 GMT Colleen Beamer wrote:
>
>> I have an older computer with Gentoo on it.  I haven't updated it in
>> quite a while because it necessitates a full reinstall and up until
>> recently, I haven't had the time to devote to this.  It is mostly
>> backuped up on an external hard drive so, it what I'm asking can't
>> be done, that's okay.
> >
>> There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL.  During the boot
>> process when it comes to the loading of MySQL it hangs.  Is there a
>> way to bypass the loading of MySQL so the computer will complete
>> booting and I can make sure I've gotten everything that I want off
>> of it before I wipe it?
>
> Have you tried setting rc_interactive="YES" in /etc/rc.conf? Then you
> can interrupt the boot process, and learn of several scripts that you
> didn't know were run.
>
> I'm assuming an openrc system, of course.

I'm not the OP, but I recently had a similar situation - total freeze  
early during the boot process.  What I wanted was a way to get that  
rc_interactive="YES" behavior - but by doing something at boot time.   
Otherwise, I needed to boot a live CD/DVD/thumb, edit rc.conf, and  
reboot.  I was able to boot adding init=/bin/bash to the kernel command  
line, but then even though I could do "openrc sysinit" then "openrc  
boot" and then start "default" services individually, it took longer,  
since I had to try to figure out in what order services would have been  
started.

I wonder if booting with init=/bin/bash, editing rc.conf, and then  
doing "exec /sbin/init" would then put  the system in a state (with  
proc 1 being init) as if it had booted normally, but with an  
interactive startup?

Jack