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Originally Posted by axn
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Yes, but not necessarily the system you wish to boot.
Extract the boot disk and plug into another Linux box which boots properly. Mount the added disk somewhere, edit to your heart's content, then do a clean shutdown, followed by re-inserting the disk into its own machine.
Done this several times when systems won't boot from their own disk and I don't have a convenient bootable CD/DVD/memstick to hand.