Re: Xfree86 and Knoppix
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:21:37AM +1200, Brian Swale wrote:
...
> I'm not running LILO. When I want to run Debian, I use a boot disk from
> startup.
When you startup from the default startup disk, then there too is the
possibility to pass options to the kernel; try
linux init=/bin/sh
this should give you a very basic system, only root (/) mounted (read-only).
Remount root (mount -oremount,rw /) and start looking where gdm get's
started.
If your boot disk for some reason doesn't allow this than you can always
boot from the install cd and instead of doing the install again switch
to the second console, mount your root disk and start the gdm hunt.
So the thing to do now is to find a way to boot into your system with
nothing but a simple shell. One of the above should work. If yoy need
help to eleminate gdm, please ask again after you managed to get into
your system. (oh, and if the above two methods don't work, let us now
so we can help to find yet another way to get in:)
...
> Now it shuts me out.
But not for long we hope.
...
> > Xfree86 takes control right from the time Debian boots - before I can
> > enter my user-name and password.
>
> Yes, this is quite normal. Try 'linux init=/bin/sh' at the LILO prompt
> to boot into nothing but a shell, then 'mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm
> /etc/rc2.d/s99xdm' (replacing xdm with whatever display manager is in
> use). That will disable the display manager.
>
> > Sometimes it lets me enter them under its screen; then it accepts no
> > other command. The mouse is not visible.
>
> I'm still surprised that Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't switch to a virtual
> console. Can you just confirm for me that you've tried that?
>
> --
> Colin Watson
> [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
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groetjes, carel
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