(Summary) inittab problem

["Dermot Paikkos" <dermot@sciencephoto.co.uk>]

Thanx to chuck, Yannick and Mateusz  for their replies.

I got a boot: prompt from my floppy and did a 
mount root=/dev/hda2 single 

which at least one reply told me to do. 

I thought I had tried all the tty (alt+fn) but I didn't see a login prompt 
when I looked. Perhaps I was a bit quick.

Thanx again.
Dp.


==== Original Message ==============
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.

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