On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Rob Dupcak wrote: > Ulrich Teichert wrote: > >Hi, > >[del] > >>I'm guessing that I can stop X from starting by moving the graphics card > >>to a different PCI slot so that the x server wont find it, but is there > >>another more elegant solution to stopping X? > >Could you do a network login, or does the machine really freezes hard? > It's frozen solid :-) I can't get to it over the network > >>I can't get to a prompt so > >>editing various files is not an option unless someone has some magic > >>incantations I can mumble. > >Boot into single user mode. From the kernel-parameters.txt documentation: > >S [KNL] run init in single mode. > Forgive my ignorance here, so all I have to do is enter something like: > b -fl S > at the SRM prompt and I should be set. Wow... if that works, that is > much too easy! :-) Probably not *that* easy, as you usually also have to specify the root device in the flags. So possibly b -fl "root=/dev/sda2 S", or if you have an initrd, b -fl "initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/sda2 S". To get into aboot and *see* what your settings are, "boot -fl i" should do the trick. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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