On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:24:26AM -0000, 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. > > Any ideas, > Dp. > At the boot prompt, append a run level number to the kernel image name. e.g. boot: zImage 1 (1 is usually single user mode) boot: zImage 3 (this gets you back into regular multi user text mode) > ~~ > 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 > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection. - : 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
