Re: Debian 3.0 (2.4 kernel) upgrade problem
<quote who="Loren King">
>
> Is there anyone out there who has a rough idea what I've done,
> and is there something I can do to get back into the system (some
> keystroke combination while things are loading), or do I need to
> go get another copy of the rescue disk?
>
my guess is that you don't have a windowmanager configured to
load when you login, i woul put one in your ~/.xinitrc
as for getting out of X, if your using lilo as your boot loader
you can load the system with the 'single' option to boot to
single user mode, or you can go further by using the init=/bin/bash
option to boot straight to bash, be sure to remount your root
partition read/write before doing anything(mount / -o remount,rw)
i haven't used GRUB so i don't know what the procedure for
it would be, maybe it's similar.
another thing you could try is when your at the X login
screen hold down CTRL+ALT and press the F1 key to get to
the console. some systems lockup when you try this(its
pretty rare but it can happen). then press CTRL+ALt and
hit F7 to get back to X. I would reccomend preventing X
from loading on boot by stopping x/k/gdm from loading
until your sure your X session works by using 'startx'.
you can do this in many ways, the most proper way
is probably to cd /etc/rc2.d look for a file named
S99xdm S99kdm S99gdm if you see it do
update-rc.d -f xdm remove
that will remove the symlinks so that process won't load
at boot anymore
goodluck
nate
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