at boot time type linux 3 and it will boot to a command prompt.
Or after boot, if you do a ctrl, alt, f1 you will get a console window that
you can log onto and fix x windows. (you may have to do a ctrl z and then
type bg to put the X windows into background.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Miktarian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 5:52 PM
Subject: [newbie] Muffed XF86config
> Hello all,
>
> I was messing with...ahem...learning about different XF86config
settings.
> The last one I tried was invalid. This I know because now when Linux
> boots it starts X and X crashes with an error concerning an invalid
> setting. The problem is is that I have my box setup to automatically boot
> into X. When the server crashes the console with the X server error just
> keeps flashing over and over. I am unable to get to another console or
get
> it to get out of the loop it is in. Is there a way that I can override
the
> automatic booting into X at startup?
>
> Any Help much appreciated!
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Harry Miktarian
>
