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#1 2004-09-15 23:43:18
- BryanY
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- Registered: 2004-08-01
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Screwed up X11 - help
My computer boots up to a blank screen and I can't even switch consoles..
Is there some way to do an interactive boot so that I can tell GDM not to start up?
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#2 2004-09-16 00:07:47
- Snowman
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- Registered: 2004-08-20
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Re: Screwed up X11 - help
If you are using lilo, type
init=/bin/bash
at the boot: prompt
It should be similar for grub.
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#3 2004-09-16 00:50:48
- afu
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- Registered: 2004-02-19
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Re: Screwed up X11 - help
I feel for ya. That's why I only boot to run level 3. Then being somewhat lazy, I have aliased "x" as startx. This way, if X fails, you are returned back to the command line.
-Shawn
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#4 2004-09-16 01:10:34
- BryanY
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Re: Screwed up X11 - help
Well, I'm using Grub.
unfortunately, that command doesn't work. Does anyone know how to use the grub command lines? It keeps telling me to load the kernel first.
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#5 2004-09-16 01:51:10
- BryanY
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Re: Screwed up X11 - help
Problem Solved!
I booted with an Arch CD, then mounted the hard drive and took GDM out of rc.conf
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