There are two things that you can do. The first may or may not work, while
the second will work.
First, when you logon and your machine starts to go haywire, press CRTL-ALT-F1
(like CTRL-ALT-DEL except for the F1 key). This hopefully will get you to your
first console window, and you can log in
Help!
I set up X to start when the machine is booted, and I changed the monitor
in my Accelerated X configuration file. This was a mistake. I rebooted,
and X tries to start over and over again in an infinite loop. I have
about 1/4 of a second window of time at the login prompt, then the
Is there any way to skip the XDM startup file? Maybe if I start up in
single user mode? Is there a LILO option for that?
Assuming that linux is your kernel image with lilo, at the lilo prompt,
you can try one of the following:
LILO: linux single
or
LILO: linux emergency
single brings you up
Hi,
I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing
that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting.
If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console?
(ctrl-alt-F1 for example). This should get you to a text prompt from which
Jesse Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing
that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting.
If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console?
I've gotten bitten by this problem
Hi all:
I've done this as well. The only way I was to resolve it was to boot of a
custom floppy.
Mount the root file system.
Remove the S99xdm (actually just move it some where else).
Get the system running without xdm
Put the S99xdm back where it belongs
Rerun xf98config
Restart xdm manually to
Jesse Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing
that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting.
If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console?
I've gotten bitten by this
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've done this as well. The only way I was to resolve it was to boot of a
custom floppy.
Mount the root file system.
Remove the S99xdm (actually just move it some where else).
Get the system running without xdm
Put the S99xdm back where it belongs
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