you can hit alt-ctrl-F1 to get to the first virtual console from a bad X session. or, you can try booting into single user mode. once you get to the command line, you need to edit your /etc/inittab and change the default run level to 3, from 5.
jason > > Howdy! > > > > I am attempting to install Redhat Linux on a stripped down NEC Ready 340T > > (i.e. it no longer has the original display, keyboard, or touchpad) hooked > > up to a Gateway EV500 monitor, a 101-key keyboard, and a 3-button serial > > mouse. Which version? Well, that's a part of the problem... > > > > Some number of months ago, I had installed 7.0 on the machine without, as I > > recall anyway, too much difficulty. Recently, I decided to use the machine > > as an Internet gateway/firewall for an internal network. So I bought a > > second PCMCIA card and started reading up on using ipchains. My research > > also brought me across docs on iptables, and it seemed to me that using the > > latter would be better for myself, as the overall architecture of that > > system seems simpler (and thus easier to learn for a rookie). But of > > course, 7.0 doesn't have iptables. After reading reviews of more recent > > distributions (some proclaiming 7.3 to be "the most complete" Redhat > > version ever), I decided to just go ahead and install 7.3. That's where my > > problems began. > > > > As far as I could tell, everything during the install went fine. I did not, > > however, test the video config (oops), but thankfully I set the machine to > > start in text mode. After booting up and logging in, when I'd try to > > "startx" the screen would flash and then the monitor would bring up > > something indicating that the refresh rate was beyond my monitor's range > > (81.2kHz by 181Hz, well outside of the 70kHz / 120Hz limits). I tried to > > configure X using "setup" to no avail...I tried probing, entering the video > > info manually, etc...No change. At that point I wondered if maybe I had > > done something differently when I originally installed 7.0 (on which X > > windows worked just fine). "One way to find out" I say, and re-install 7.0. > > > > No, I hadn't done anything differntly. X again worked fine after a 7.0 > > install. I ran Xconfigurator through linuxconf (um...can someone explain to > > me why they removed this by 7.3? it's great for rookies like myself...) and > > probed the card here as well, noticing a crucial difference between the way > > 7.0 and 7.3 recognized my card. Both found the same "Entry" (Neomagic Corp. > > | NM2160...) and "XFree4 driver" (neomagic), but while 7.0 listed the > > "X Server" as "XF86_SVGA", 7.3 listed the X Server as "None"! > > > > So after doing some more reading, this time about XFree86 and the various > > distros, I figured the easy solution might be to regress my install to the > > version most likely to have retained the 7.0 X install fashion but having > > iptables -- 7.1. So I installed 7.1. > > > > Now...The graphical install of 7.1 does not work on the machine for some > > reason. So I did the text install. And after testing X during install I > > determined that it had the same problems as in 7.3. At this point, I > > decided to just accept that X would not work on my firewall and move > > on..."I can always log on from another computer anyway once it's up and > > running." HOWEVER...The text-based install does not allow you to dictate > > that the machine should start in TEXT mode. So, the machine starts in > > graphical (i.e. non-working X) mode. Agh!!! I'm quite sure the machine is > > not properly config'd to receive outside connections yet, but I can't > > change that without being able to get on the machine. I tried > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace after the bootup to back out of the X server, but that > > only works momentarily (like, for 3 seconds) and then it tries to go back > > in (what the hell is THAT all about?). > > > > One more thing. I noticed during the 7.0 and 7.1 install that only Neomagic > > 128 and 256 were available video hardware choices (of course I choose the > > former while installing both), while in 7.3 there is also 128XD. I tried > > installing 7.3 with both 128 and 128XD to no help. > > > > Bottom line: What the hell do I do to fix this? At this point I'd actually > > like to stick with 7.1 b/c it has what I want (iptables) without taking up > > the space that 7.3 does (compare 775 MB with 1.25 GB, a big difference when > > working with 2.0 GB of drive space)...But 7.1 won't even startup in > > text-mode for me and is therefore currently unusable. (I tried interactive > > startup...INIT runlevel isn't part of it, unfortunately.) I would go for > > any solution that either allows me to install iptables on 7.0 easily (* see > > note at bottom *) OR to boot 7.1 to text and then set the proper X server > > OR, if necessary, to set the proper X server in 7.3. > > > > I guess in a worst case scenario I'll just re-install 7.3, suck up the lost > > space, and deal with config-ing the thing in text mode until I can log into > > it from a computer on the internal network, but I'd prefer not to have to > > do that, ya know? > > > > Thanks in advance for any help or advice. > > > > Hagn > > > > P.S. Oh yeah, the note at the bottom...I found what appears to be an > > iptables RPM for RH 7.0 at > > > > http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2001-January/000324.html > > > > However, when I try to access the HTTP or FTP sites involved I'm told I > > don't have permission to access the appropriate folder! 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