Re: How to prevent x startup

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

David Turetsky wrote:

> I finally have a partially working x configuration, but clearly my 
> keyboard is not being
>
> properly recognized, and my mouse is not being recognized at all. I 
> would like to stay
>
> at the command line prompt to fix the config files, but my system 
> automatically
>
> starts up gdm
>
>  
>
> How do I abort the startup of x?
At the LILO: prompt, enter "linux single".

If by "keyboard is not being properly recognized" you mean the keys 
produce the wrong characters, experiment at this point before pressing 
<ENTER> to figure out which keys you need to press to type in your root 
password; you'll be asked for it later.

This'll drop you into a single-user text mode, at which time you can 
prevent gdm from starting on future boot-ups (see recent mailing list 
archives) and/or fix your keyboard/mouse issues.

Kent