From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: Dermot Paikkos <dermot@sciencephoto.co.uk>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inittab problem
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:14:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050204151413.GA22536@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42035B6A.11597.12FBBF68@localhost>
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@sciencephoto.com
> Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library
> Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-04 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-04 11:24 inittab problem Dermot Paikkos
2005-02-04 11:43 ` Yannick Van Osselaer
2005-02-04 15:15 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-02-04 12:04 ` chuck gelm
2005-02-04 15:14 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
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