On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 08:13 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > 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. Damn, I wondered why lilo was dumped in favor of grub. It must have been Fedora's turn to feed the Stallman. Ric
