Re: Help! How not to start X ?
Are you able to press ctrl-alt-F2 to get to another virtual console? If
so, once there login and edit /etc/inittab. If you don't know about
this file read man pages on init, inittab and perhaps telinit.
If you can't get to a virtual terminal, then as your system boots at the
lilo prompt type "linux single". This will boot linux into single user
mode and you can edit /etc/inittab as needed. There is probably a line
like this
id:5:initdefault:
which you will want to change to
id:3:initdefault:
Good luck.
"Benjamin F. Zhou" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed debian's base and X on my notebook. but failed to follow the advice not to
> start X at boot time.
>
> Now, X got started, but then frozes.
>
> I tried boot from disk, and try to edit the /etc/X11/config. But could not find it.
> Is there a way to un-start X at boot or quit, or start a second console?
>
> appreciate any tip or hints
>
> Benjamin
>
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