Thanx to chuck, Yannick and Mateusz for their replies. I got a boot: prompt from my floppy and did a mount root=/dev/hda2 single which at least one reply told me to do. I thought I had tried all the tty (alt+fn) but I didn't see a login prompt when I looked. Perhaps I was a bit quick. Thanx again. Dp. ==== Original Message ============== 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. Any ideas, Dp. ~~ Dermot Paikkos * dermot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668 - : 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
