On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:43:50PM +0100, Yannick Van Osselaer wrote: > 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 You'll have to do a disk sync and run 'umount -a' before turning your computer off via the power switch if you boot this way. > -- > 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 > -- 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
