Re: System Hosed a.k.a Don't be nice to the wife and Mother-in-law!!
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:08:33AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote:
> The Problem
> So here is the problem. I boot to wdm. But now it does startx it drops and
> my screen flashes off and on. I need to disable wdm before it starts. I
> can't crtl+alt+backspace, crtl+c, crtl+z or even crtl+alt+F3. I tried to
> use the rescue disk but it booted me to wdm. How can I boot to the console,
> I must be missing a parameter for the rescue method. Also, I normally boot
> with loadlin!!
Sounds like your XF86 configuration is hosed.
try:
loadlin <kernel> single
(Replacing "<kernel>" with the filename of your kernbel, as normal for
loadlin).
This should dump you into a root login prompt, and thence to a shell we're
you'll have about 3 processes running. Handy.
If things are *really* dir, do loadin <kernel> -b, but you might be amazed
how unpleasant that is...
HTH
SRH
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