Re: Wdm

["Thomas J. Hamman" <hawk3@eagnet.com>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:22:23AM -0300, romeu@petrobras.com.br wrote:
> 
> I  tried to install Wdm.
> While in it's setup, it asked me something about a lock, which xdm was
> using. Well, I think I give up of installing it, and pressed <CTRL> + C.
> Yesterday, when I booted the box, there was a screen with a penguin, and I
> could not use the keyboard anymore(just the mouse).
> Three questions:
> 1) Why does stupid newbies keep messing with things that they don't
> understand? (Answer: because they're stupid).

Because they want to learn, and messing with things is the only way.
The stupid newbies are the ones who _don't_ mess with things and get
themselves interesting situations. :)

> 2) (no kidding) Is there any way to boot linux step-by-step, just like the
> F8 key in DOS? So I would skip the Wdm initialization.
> 3) If the answer to 2) is no, how could I recover my installation (don't
> wanna use rescue.bin).
 
I don't know about "step-by-step", but one thing you can try is booting
into single-user mode by typing "linux 1" at the Lilo prompt.  Log in
with your root password and uninstall the offending package.

(I would have suggested using "linux 2", but I think when I tried that
after I installed Debian I discovered that would end up running xdm and
switching to xdm's runlevel anyway.)

Thus, I don't really know if that'll work, but it gives you something to
try until someone more knowledgable than I gives you a better solution.

Oh yeah, BTW... did you try ctrl-alt-f2 to switch to a virtual console?

Tom