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Subject: [ILUG-BOM] how to boot in failsafe
Date: 04 Aug 2000 13:21:13 +0500
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>Hi friends
>I use linux mandrake 7.I have set up X to start automatically when
>I boot. But sometimes when I uninstall some RPMs it does not boot in
>the GUI nor the command line and justs hangs. Can anyone tell me how
>do I boot in the COMMAND LINE INTERFACE when I cannot boot into X
>directly? Thanks in advance,
>Lloyd
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If ya m/c has hangs in X mode, try this at the Lilo prompt.
lilo: single
& hit enter. U r now into maintainence mode. Trouble shoot &
reboot to get htings to normal.
>Lloyd Dsouza
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