Boot Hangup

Linux and Unix-Like Slackware
1

I have the 2.4.20 kernel. The system was operating normally now when I boot, the system gets hung up when trying to start the mysqld demon.

How can I bypass this step during boot. If not possible, how can I do a simple boot so I can go in remove mysql from the startup process?

If have lilo.

2

Just go do the /etc/rc.d files in Slackware rc.d directory and comment out the MySQL startup code.