On Wednesday 06 December 2006 10:10, Ian Malone wrote: >On 06/12/06, Michael Satterwhite <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Lonni J Friedman wrote: >> > It sounds like X is hanging/crashing. Can you boot to runlevel 3 >> > successfully/reliably? if so, then you should do so, start X >> > manually, and grab the X log to review. >> >> I really hate to show ignorance, but it's never stopped me before. >> From the grub screen, how do I get it to boot to runlevel 3? I'm more >> than willing to get information to help people help me. > >Press e to edit the selected boot commands and add '3' to the >end of the line that boots the kernel. Not entirely sure where >this is documented, but a useful piece of knowledge (especially >if you've forgotten the root password for a machine). > And this is not good info either, for passwd fubars, one must use runlevel 1 to repair them. >-- >imalone -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
