[newbie] How do you access console mode from within X to change lilo.conf

[Romanator]

Hi,

How do you access 'Console Mode' from within X windows? In addition, can
I review and make modifications from the desktop i.e. checking my RAM. I
think the command line is:   /sbin/lilo.conf

Should this be done from ' root ' ?

I have an IDE drive. Should I type in:
append=hda=ide_scsi mem=128M

Roman