You can get a console at boottime by using your resc1440 disk and then
nuking/renaming the S99xdm line in /etc/rc2.s. This being done, you can
then run XF86Config/setup again until you get it going.
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Small, Bradley wrote:
> I just installed the (slink) Debian distribution. I
You don't actually even need to boot to single-user mode- hitting
ctl-alt-f2 will get you a text-mode login prompt. If you are scarce for
cycles once you've logged in, as root you can run ps to find xdm's
PID and kill it. NOTE: killing your X server is not enough- xdm will
merely bring up anoth
On 12-Apr-99 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> logged in you can remove whatever boot file is starting xdm (I'm not sure
> what it
> would be since you're not using the standard debian package).
> /etc/init.d/xdm?
I developed this same problem after upgrading to slink and I was unable to
locate the caus
You don't need to reinstall. You system hangs because xdm is being run as part
of the
boot up. You need to boot into 'single user mode' to fix this problem. At the
lilo
prompt you'll need to type 'Linux single' where "Linux" is whatever label you
used in
your lilo.conf. This will bring you to a
I just installed the (slink) Debian distribution. It worked ok and seemed to
be rather painless. I got lilo working even though I installed to a second
disk in my system... So what's my problem? Here goes:
I read the readme's and found that for my video card SiS 5597/5598 I would
need the 3.3.3.1
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