Re: inittab problem

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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

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