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smika

Member

Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 25

Can't boot or restore anymore

Last night I installed the latest updates with pacman -Suy. Today I startup my laptop again and don't see KDM coming up. After searching in the wiki and this forum I tried the following procedure to startup in single user mode (commandline), but that doesn't work either:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot- … user-mode/

As last step I tried ctrl+alt+F?, but this doesn;t work either.

Is there a way another way to access the commandline so I can discover my problem?

Smika

P.S. I don;t have any errors when I am booting, but after the last step when It must show KDM or the commandline... nothing happends.

Last edited by smika (2011-09-02 19:15:37)

StenM

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 33

Re: Can't boot or restore anymore

You could try to boot Arch from USB or CD and mount your root partition

mkdir /mnt/root
mount /dev/sd<partition> /mnt/root

then edit (if you use init file to start kde):

nano /mnt/root/etc/inittab

setup

# Boot to console
id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault:

and

# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >/dev/null 2>&1

Now, you should boot only to console.
Did you search for errors in /var/log/ folder?

S-

Last edited by StenM (2011-09-02 22:34:29)