Try this: Once the login screen goes black, press CTRL-ALT-F1, and this should take you to a login prompt (text only). From there, you should be able to change some settings and/or run Xconfigurator again.
If you want to boot up into text mode, edit your /etc/inittab file and change the line: id:5:initdefault: To id:3:initdefault: Once you've booted into text mode and logged in, you can start X-Windows by typing 'startx'. Oh, and Merry Christmas! :) Stephan Borg Osgiliath P/L (ACN: 095 048 981) Mobile: 0402 789 788 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of john midworth Sent: Monday, 24 December 2001 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] help please Dear people at SLUG, I hope you can help me, or can recommend someone who could help me with a bit of advice to get me started. I have just got my own computer for Christmas/ birthday (an old one, but it should be OK) and have installed Linux Red Hat 7.1. Everything was fine until one day the Gnome menu gave me the options: log out, halt, or reboot. I accidentally pressed halt on the footprint picture, and the computer switched off. The next morning when I tried to reboot Linux, this is what happened. First it says that the hard disk was not cleanly unmounted. Then it goes through something like a scandisk process, then it gets to the login prompt and then the screen goes blank/black and stays that way. So I have to keep shutting it down wrongly all the time. This time I pressed "I" to enter interactive startup and went through the whole thing and when it got to login, it still flickered and went black. I'm sorry to have to bother you, but my parents don't know anything about computers. I have to get a proper Linux manual, but I'm only 9 (next week) so I haven't got it yet. I've got Gnome for Dummies but it doesn't cover this. I would really, really appreciate any help I could get to just get Linux to boot up. Thank you very much, L.M. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
