On 12/6/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/6/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/12/06, Michael Satterwhite <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > > > It sounds like X is hanging/crashing. Can you boot to runlevel 3 > > > successfully/reliably? if so, then you should do so, start X > > > manually, and grab the X log to review. > > > > I really hate to show ignorance, but it's never stopped me before. From > > the grub screen, how do I get it to boot to runlevel 3? I'm more than > > willing to get information to help people help me. > > > > Press e to edit the selected boot commands and add '3' to the > end of the line that boots the kernel. Not entirely sure where > this is documented, but a useful piece of knowledge (especially > if you've forgotten the root password for a machine). Any reason this hasn't been made easier/more intuitive in grub yet? It seems most of the time this is necessary, it is by someone who doesn't know how to do it yet.
Because GRUB is a GNU project, and intuitiveness is never their concern. These are the same folks who brought us info pages. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
