RE: HELP, caught in a login loop
Hi Karsten,
Every distro I've used can be forced into runlevel 3 (ie. straight into a
console) by simply typing -
linux 3
- at the LILO prompt when booting. (Substitute "linux" with whatever name
you have assigned to your Debian partition in /etc/lilo.conf).
Then you should be able to modify config files to your heart's content.
Bartman
-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 9:45 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: HELP, caught in a login loop
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:15:47PM -0400, gorgon@globalserve.net
(gorgon@globalserve.net) wrote:
> I am new to Linux
> I just installed Debian GNU/Linux stable 2.2.23 for i386
>
> I am caught in a continuos loop involving X-Windows login.
>
> When I boot, the computer start xdm and then goes right away to the
> X-Windows login. The problem is that X-Windows is not configured right,
> and I am getting multiple images on the screen, making X-Windows unusable.
>
> I then exit X-Windows to try to get to the prompt, so that I can
> reconfigure X-Windows, but it goes right back again to the X-Windows
login.
> Making it impossible for me to get to the prompt so that I could fix this
> problem.
>
>
> Would you please inform me, how I can boot Linux and stop it from starting
> xdm and X-Windows. You assistance will be greatly appreciated.
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html
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