Re: How to boot into single user mode?

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Rob Lundahl wrote:

> Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on
> the xdm login. 
> 
> To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically
> to X windows?
> 

Are you booting using LILO?  If so, add "single" as a parameter to the
kernel image that you boot...So get the boot: prompt by hitting the shift
key at the LILO prompt.  Then hit tab to see what kernel images you have
available.  Type in the name of the kernel image, followed by a space,
followed by "single" and hit return.  You'll boot to single user mode.
For example:

LILO boot: linux single <return>


If you're using Loadlin, the procedure will be different...I can't help
you there.

HTH.
noah

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