Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > > 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 searched it and turned up to be pretty simple. > > It's just needed to append the runlevel number to the kernel line, something > like this example: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=/dev/sda2 ro 3 Note that the above isn't going to boot without X on a default Debian Lenny system unless you have changed it. By default on Debian all runlevels are configured the same. There isn't anything magical about runlevel 2 or 3 or 4 or 5. By default they are all the same. You can as a local admin configure them to be different but unless you have done so then booting runlevel 3 won't be any different than booting the default runlevel 2. X will start the same. The traditional solution would be to boot single user mode with S or 'single' and make corrections from there. Alternatively you can disable gdm/kdm/xdm temporarily and then reboot to the full system which will then be a text console. Bob
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