On Friday 04 February 2005 12:24, Dermot Paikkos wrote: > Hi, > > SYS: Slackware 9.1 on Dell Dim 2400, Intel Cel > > I have go myself into a bit of a fix. I changed the default runlevel from 3 > to 4 so I would get a GUI at boot up. However I haven't correctly > configured my Xserver and now my system is stalling at boot-up and I > can find a way to get access to a shell to edit the inittab. > > Does anyone know of a switch/arg I could use that might allow me to > boot the system into single users mode? I thought I could boot from my > floppy which prompts me for a command to use. At the lilo prompt, typ this: init=/bin/sh rw -- Yannick Van Osselaer - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html