Hi Karsten, Every distro I've used can be forced into runlevel 3 (ie. straight into a console) by simply typing -
linux 3 - at the LILO prompt when booting. (Substitute "linux" with whatever name you have assigned to your Debian partition in /etc/lilo.conf). Then you should be able to modify config files to your heart's content. Bartman -----Original Message----- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 9:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HELP, caught in a login loop on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am new to Linux > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux stable 2.2.23 for i386 > > I am caught in a continuos loop involving X-Windows login. > > When I boot, the computer start xdm and then goes right away to the > X-Windows login. The problem is that X-Windows is not configured right, > and I am getting multiple images on the screen, making X-Windows unusable. > > I then exit X-Windows to try to get to the prompt, so that I can > reconfigure X-Windows, but it goes right back again to the X-Windows login. > Making it impossible for me to get to the prompt so that I could fix this > problem. > > > Would you please inform me, how I can boot Linux and stop it from starting > xdm and X-Windows. You assistance will be greatly appreciated. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html -- Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
