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