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