Thanks to everyone who replied to my query. I now have an embarrassment of choices.
<quote who="Jeff Waugh"> > <quote who="Brendan Dacre"> > > So, is there any way to alter the run level at boot time? This would > > allow me a text login to run xconfig and fix the problem. > I find the easiest way of doing this, and it works across distributions > (because they have different ideas of what runlevels should do), is to pass > the 'single' parameter to the kernel when booting. > LILO: linux single > ^ use the label of your kernel, but it's often 'linux' > Then you'll boot into single user mode, which makes life easy, without > interruptions from pesky users and such. More specifically, Jeff, I looked for parameters to pass to the kernel but most seemed concerned with kernel compilation, rather than runtime parameters. Are there other parameters that can be passed at runtime and where would they be documented? TIA. Brendan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
