On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:02:20PM -0500, james.fogg wrote:
-> I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up
-> (video driver experiments.. ooops).
->
-> My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X (cause it wont
-> run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see the penguin and a command line login
-> for about 2 seconds then X server starts.
->
-> How can I stop X from starting when I see the login?
I'm surprised you haven't gotten an answer on this yet. I'll make one
suggestion:
Boot on an emergency disk, something like tomsrtbt
(http://www.toms.net/rb/) (You _did_ make one, didn't you? ;-), and mount
the file system with /etc to, say, /mnt. (You may have to make /mnt
first.)
Then edit /mnt/etc/inittab. Make one and only one change: in the
uncommented line below, change the 5 to a 3:
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:
Then reboot to your own system, log in, and try to recover your old
settings.
I prefer to leave mine set to run level 3, and manually start X. Having
munched my GUI setup on both Unix and Windows more than once, I prefer it
as the safest route.
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