Stop rc.local

I was trying to get a daemon to load on boot, I stupidly added it to rc.local and it just hangs. I would love to put in a live CD and edit out the line but the volume is encrypted and I cannot get it to mount.

Is there a way I can cancel the daemon from loading or get to the grub menu (not readily visible since I am single boot) and then boot into a console?

Thank You

[AndrewSerk]

Hello,
If you have a Fedora livecd you should be able to boot the livecd and mount a encrypted partition for maintenance. If you use gnome 2.x from the live cd, just go Places and click on the partition you want to mount. There should be a pop up for you to enter the passkey.

Adrew,

I tried that and it tells me it is not a mountable volume.

[AndrewSerk]

Hello Seeked,
You could try to mount them through the disk utility palimpsest.
or
If you are not using LVM you could try something like :

su -
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/DEVICENAME luks-fedora
mkdir /mnt/luks-fedora
mount /dev/mapper/luks-fedora /mnt/luks-fedora

replace DEVICENAME with your device's path.

Andrew,

I am using LVM. However, I did find a solution.

When booting use hit 'I' to enter interactive setup with GRUB, then 'a' to allow you to append the command that will boot the machine with a space 's'. This will put you directly into single user mode, a command prompt where I used vim to edit /etc/rc.local

Thank you for your time and effort!

[AndrewSerk]

Glad you were able to resolve the issue. You have to love linux for all the different ways to achieve a goal.