At the lilo prompt hit shift which should give you a "boot: " prompt Type the following where "kernel-name" is the name of your kernel (usually it's just called linux by default) and hit enter. If you don't know the name of the default kernel and lilo is not in menu mode you can hit tab twice to get a list of available kernels. The default kernel is typically denoted with an *.
boot: kernel-name init=/bin/sh That will boot into single user mode. You can then boot into whatever init level you need or do whatever else you might need to do. One thing of note is your filesystem will be read-only so you need to remount it. /dev/hdx is of course your root filesystem and needs to change to reflect that. mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdx It seems strange to me that it is trying to load X, failing and then not giving you a shell (which is the default behavior). Have you tried killing X with ctrl+alt+backspace? Or perhaps dropping to a tty by pressing ctrl+alt+F1? Kyle Christopher Baus said: >> I have a inspiron 2650 w/debian sid running on it. >> >> I am using the nvidia drivers >> >> To get it running (w/kern 2.6.7) I did something like this >> >> # apt-get install module-assistant >> # m-a update >> # m-a prepare >> # m-a a-i nvidia-kernel > > Sounds great, but how do I boot to the command prompt? Problem is first > boot is going directly to X. X is hosed, so I can't do anything. I'm > sure there is a way to change the run level, but I can't figure it out. > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > Kyle T. Smith - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sweetooth.org _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
