At 08:41 PM 9/29/1998 -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: >Braden N. McDaniel writes: > > Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot > > sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up > > at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is > > kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that the X server has not yet been > > properly configured. How can I get to a prompt so I can run xf86config? > >I hit the same problem when I messed things up in a different way such >that X could not run. Once I was able to get in, I discovered that >xdm tries over and over again to bring up X, which would always fail. >I heard some talk that xdm might be changed to fall back to a console >login after a number of failures. > >Anyway, I had to boot from a Debian Rescue floppy to get in. Forget >about using the "rescue" command on that floppy -- it never worked for >me. Just go ahead as if you were going to do an install. *Very* >*carefully*, use the menu commands to mount your existing swap >partition and mount your root partition, and then switch to another >virtual console (Alt-F2, is it?). From there, disable xdm somehow, >such as by renaming the xdm script in /etc/init.d. Then reboot from >your hard drive as normal. > >I'm not going to use xdm again until such time as I have a backup root >partition set up (with xdm disabled) so that I can boot and repair >things without having to use the Rescue disk. > >
Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console? I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try it. ================================================ Kent West, Technology Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abilene Christian Univ., Abilene, TX 915-674-2557 FAX: 915.674.6724 Amateur Radio: KC5ENO Debian Linux: Ride the wave with the penguins!