Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-07 Thread Shao Zhang
When boot up, type linux single or linux emergency Rob Lundahl wrote: > Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on > the xdm login. > > To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically > to X windows? > > Rob > > _

Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Rob Lundahl wrote: > Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on > the xdm login. > > To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically > to X windows? > Are you booting using LILO? If so, add "single" as a paramete

Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/6/99 11:51:56 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically > to X windows? > 1) If you're using hamm - put "no-xdm" in your /etc/X11/options file to prevent xdm from starting On any system you sh

How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread Rob Lundahl
Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on the xdm login. To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically to X windows? Rob _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-28 Thread joost
Hi, This is explained in the manpage for init(1). Quoting man init: ---cut--- BOOTFLAGS It is possible to pass a number of flags to init from the boot monitor (eg. LILO). Init accepts the following flags: S, single Single user mode boot. In this mode /etc/in

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Østergaard
> i figure the only way to fix this is to boot into single user > mode and remove the xdm entries, however i am not sure > how to do this in linux... needless to say i am feeling very > stupid right about now. any help would be appreciated. There's nothing to feel stupid about. Learning-by-doing

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
at the LILO boot prompt you can type: linux single To boot your "linux" kernel. --Jay > folks, > > after successfuly downloading and installing debian 2.0, > i foolishly set it to start xdm at boot time. unfortunatly > i did not get the X server configured correctly and i am > now unable to l

how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, after successfuly downloading and installing debian 2.0, i foolishly set it to start xdm at boot time. unfortunatly i did not get the X server configured correctly and i am now unable to login at the console. i am also not able to remote login because the console is secured against root ogi