On Friday 23 Nov 2001 10:53 am, you wrote: if you have a boot disk for your system and all you have done is rearranged your partition scheme (sucessfully one assumes!) i.e. no kernel changes etc. then you should be able to boot with the disk and when you get to the lilo prompt type: linux root=/dev/xyz where xyz is the partition of your root partition (or /boot if different), from what you describe having done however - adding a partition where previously there was none, your existing partition numbers shouldn't have changed, you may find that booting doesn't succesfully mount all filesystems but if not hopefully you will get a message about 'password for maintenance or ctrl-d for normal boot' enter the root password and you will be dropped to a simple shell, you can try to mount partitions - esp. /usr using the 'new' device names and then launch an editor to edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new partition names >
if you are getting a login screen, then instead of choosing a window manager press ctrl-alt-f1 or ....f2 through f6, this will give you a console and you can logon there, type dmesg at a prompt to see kernel messages and also look at /var/log/boot.log (as root) while booting (disk or not) at the lilo prompt type 'linux init 3' init level 3 on mandrake systems is console mode, to get single user mode type 'linux init 1' or 'linux single' > Questions: > 1- How can I use the boot disk to boot into the console mode rather than > the graphical login? > > Problem: > KDE or any other window manager won't start anymore. The graphic login only > has two options: previous and failsafe, neither of which get anything > started. There are quite a few error messages that appear during the > machine booting sequence. > I'd like to see what they are so that I can solve (with your precious help) > whatever problem there is. > > I recently added a new FAT32 partition using diskdrake and then formated it > under win98. I needed the new partitions so that I could install > office2000. (I unfortunately still need that because of the lacking chinese > support under linux - I still haven't been able to get it working > properly). I think part of the problem is related to this (something about > too many partitions being mounted...). hope this helps bascule
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