From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: inittab problem Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:15:49 -0500 Message-ID: <20050204151549.GB22536@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <42035B6A.11597.12FBBF68@localhost> <200502041243.50844.yannick.vanosselaer@scarlet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502041243.50844.yannick.vanosselaer@scarlet.be> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Yannick Van Osselaer Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.