On 12/8/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 10:10, Ian Malone 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). >> > And this is not good info either, for passwd fubars, one must use runlevel > 1 to repair them. > And you get to run level 1 by...
Putting 1 instead of 3 -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
