Booting Redhat requires a file to be removed

[wlogatto]

Hi everyone,

I am having a kind of strange problem. I work for a company that builds computers for military applications. We have a unit that is using Redhat Enterprise Linux Server using a CF Card for the HDD. The CF Cards were prepared for us by the customer. We just got them in however, upon testing it will start to boot but it looks for a serial ID plug which we do not have, so when it does not find it, the TERM signal is sent and it shuts down. so we emailed them for instructions on how to get around that. they told us to remove a certain file using the rm command.

The only problem is that we still cannot get redhat to boot, therfore I cannot get to the linux terminal to even use the rm command.

Is there any way I can rm <file> in the GRUB or any other way?

FYI I am not very familiar with linux but I do have a decennt understanding of general programming/scripting.

Anyhelp is greatly appreciated.

[oz]

Hello and welcome aboard!

You should be able to boot with any Linux liveCD such as the Parted Magic LiveCD (or the liveUSB version) and then navigate to and manipulate files at your leisure.

[wlogatto]

Cool thanks, I will give this a try when I get a chance, but it sounds like exactly what I needed.

-Will

[wlogatto]

As it turns out I didn't have a disc readily available, but we did figure it out. I booted into single user mode to logged into the root, and remounted to rw so i could then rm the file. But thanks for the reply.