When you see the boot prompt ( lilo: )    type " linux 3 "   it will bring you
to runlevel 3 which is basically a command line interface. From there you can
re-reun XConfigurator (if you're running RedHat) if not you'll be able to edit
the config files at least. Good hunting.



Darryl

Mike Tvarkunas wrote:

> I swapped a harddrive running mandrake/KDE into another machine... I wasn't
> thinking about it coming up into X automatically, now X just loops
> something about can't find screens.  I get that because the wrong xserver
> in is there, but I can't get into anything to change runlevel or to
> reconfig X, how can I do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>         Mike Tvarkunas
>         Asst District Director of Information Technology
>         East Mississippi Community College
>         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         Ph. 601.476.5059  Fax 601.476.5069

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"Though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven,
that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time
and fate but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"

Tennyson's "Ulysses"

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