How to boot system in Interactive mode to disable/abort some services during startup?

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Issue

  • If a system is booting up and an init script is taking too long or is permanently hung, how can we abort it without rebooting?
  • Rebooting into another runlevel and unlinking it from the rc3.d directory and then rebooting is not a preferred solution.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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