Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process
You can instruct the OS to boot into a diffrent run level by editing the kernel line before you boot it in grub. It will affect only that boot.
I don't have the comand syntex infront of me, but a google for it should produce the info.
From: Juan Ignacio Gaudio <jgaudio@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:06:31 +0100
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process
Hello,
I broke my X (again) trying to install a graphics device driver on my Vostro 1000, so now I don't have video and the keyboard does not respond.
I just need to be able to change to a console tty and restore the previous xorg.conf. But as X starts automatically I can't manage to do that before X crashes and I lose the keyboard again... do you know of a way of changing the runlevel to just console (no X) or aborting X startup during Linux boot process (some key combination or anything).
I'm running Debian Lenny.
Thanks!
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