On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 00:16, Delbaere, Tim wrote: > OK, tried that, and got the install screwed. Had to re-install, and once > again after I used Vi to edit the inittab file, it reboots and tells me the > installation is damaged. Drops me into a shell but with all the files read > only and I can't edit the inittab file. > > If I do get to a text prompt, what is the Fedora configuration tool for > setting up X? redhat-config-xfree86 If you want to get to a text based login, rather than screwing with your boot loader (grub), just boot up to the graphical login, type "CNTL-ALT-F1", which gets you to a "virtual" console, log in there as root, and make the suggested change to /etc/inittab. Then rebpoot. C-A-F1 should work even if X is not working correctly. Cheers, Ben
