On 31/12/99, Pete Clapham said:
>On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 07:42:53 +1100, Des Wass wrote:
>
>>Does your machin boot straight into X?
>>
>
>YES IT DOES. FOR MOST PURPOSES, THIS SEEMED LIKE THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAY TO GO
>
OK. Here's two options:
1) If you can login, open a console/terminal window and as root type "init 3"
(less the quotes). This should spit you out from X and leave you at a prompt.
Next time you reboot (but you don't have to now) you won't be booting into X.
You can now run Xconfigurator or XF86config or whatever to reconfigure your X
environment.
2) The other option is to type linux single at your lilo prompt when you
reboot. this will throw you into a shell as root. you can then type init 3 and
reboot - then run Xconfigurator or whatever.
If this works and you prefer to boot back into X each time, as root type "init
5" form the command line and you're there.
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