I am fairly new to Linux, so please be gentle.
I have a Redhat 7.2 system, running RAID1, which has developed a problem on startup. I have it set to go straight to a graphical login screen and all has been fine until the other night. It started up OK until it came to the step where it showed the text login , which is usually followed immediately by the graphical login screen, but it produced and continues to produce, a screen which is totally unreadable. I cannot even guess what is what. I have tried another monitor, known to be good and with a higher spec than my normal monitor to no avail. I have also tried a different video card, also to no avail. I cannot Ctrl C out of the situation; the system appears to be totally hung; not even pressing the reset button does any good. Only a power down is of any use.
How might I get to a text login so that I might get at the startup files. I am not sure which files I should be looking for or where they are (rc? files I guess).
Any clues (or even absolute directions) would be a great help.
Regards, Steve
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