I changed the 5 to a 3 and rebooted, and nothing seemed to happen. My single user mode it says it 1 though, so I tried that too and it just takes me to the prompt of single user mode. How can I delete all the xfree from there? Thank you for you help. Garrett Jochimsen IT Department Documation LLC 715-552-5791 garrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alfred Hovdestad Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:07 PM To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Just start over Once you get to the shell prompt in rescue (or single user) mode, about the only editor that you can count on having access to is vi. To change the 5 to a 3, type: vi /etc/inittab In the editor window, navigate your cursor over the 5 and press r3 That should [r]eplace the 5 with a 3. The press :wq That should save the file. You can check that grep inittab /etc/inittab It should show the entry below. Then type reboot to reboot the server. Alfred Garrett Jochimsen wrote: > But, once I make the changes for the id:3:initdefault, how do I save the > changes, there is no sample in the help file? I did everything except for > saving? > > Garrett Jochimsen > IT Department > Documation LLC > 715-552-5791 > garrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -----Original Message----- > From: xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Alfred Hovdestad > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:17 PM > To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Just start over > > If you can't boot at all, there are two methods that I have used. First > if your distribution comes with a rescue CD, you can boot off of that. > In Redhat, you can boot off disk 1 and enter linux rescue. > > If you don't have a rescue CD, the procedure is a little more involved, > but not terribly difficult. If you are using grub as your bootloader, > you can enter an 'e' to edit the boot parameters when the grub menu is > displayed. On the line that begins kernel, press 'e' again to edit the > line and add the word single to the end of the line. That will boot > your system into single-user mode. > > > Once you have the rescue mode running, you can edit the file > /etc/inittab and change the following line: > > id:5:initdefault: > > to > > id:3:initdefault: > > and reboot. This will boot you into multi-user mode without X11. You > will then have your server running and you can tinker with X as you see fit. > > Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE > University of Saskatchewan _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
