Re: System Hosed a.k.a Don't be nice to the wife and Mother-in-law!!
You need to boot into single-user mode. Get your LILO boot: prompt and type the name
of the image you want to boot plus 'single'.
"Person, Roderick" wrote:
> OK,
>
> The Mistakes
> It was all my stupid mistake. I was working with some tar's having fun
> hacking in Debian, and then my wife and mother-in-law need to use the
> computer to web browse. So since I had netscape running in Debian and that
> what they use in Win95, I decided to be nice and let them use Debian instead
> of logging out rebooting and all that. Fatal mistake 1. Fatal mistake 2 -- I
> was logged in as root. Anyway I check on them an hour later and there in
> Windows - WHAT THE FFF, How!! So the get done. I discovered that they just
> shut the machine off and started again!!!!!
>
> 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!!
>
> Roderick P. Person
> ?
> 454-2616
> personrp@ccbh.com
>
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