Paul Stear wrote: > On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: > >> > 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? >> > What tools do I need? >> >> In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from >> another box. As a last resort you could boot a live CD chroot and fix >> things. > How do I boot without x?
Hit "I" when the system prompts if "interactive mode" mode should be used. I usually hold I all the way from after the boot loader until something happens... Another way: If you use grub, you can edit the boot command line. Add "init=/bin/sh" to the end of the boot command line. Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
