On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:24:26AM -0000, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> SYS: Slackware 9.1 on Dell Dim 2400, Intel Cel
> 
> I have go myself into a bit of a fix. I changed the default runlevel from 3 
> to 4 so I would get a GUI at boot up. However I haven't correctly 
> configured my Xserver and now my system is stalling at boot-up and I 
> can find a way to get access to a shell to edit the inittab.
> 
> Does anyone know of a switch/arg I could use that might allow me to 
> boot the system into single users mode? I thought I could boot from my 
> floppy which prompts me for a command to use.
> 
> Any ideas,
> Dp.
> 

At the boot prompt, append a run level number to the kernel image name.

e.g.

boot: zImage 1

(1 is usually single user mode)

boot: zImage 3

(this gets you back into regular multi user text mode)

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