Re: How to boot without the X window system?
From: Charles Landau (clandau_at_macslab.com)
Date: 04/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:05:27 -0700 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
>Elvio Caruana wrote:
>
>>Charles,
>>
>>When X starts and fails, press CRTL+ALT+F1 to go to console mode.
>>Log in as root, then edit /etc/inittab with your favourite editor.
>>
>>You probably didn't know that you can go to a console by
>>CTL+ALT+F[1-6] .. and that will solve you many problems.
>>
>*He said he can't boot. Thus he can't edit inittab*
Right. I actually did know about CRTL+ALT+F1, but once in console
mode I don't get a login prompt.
>
>The easiest way is at the fedora splash menu
In my case that would be GRUB.
>press "a"
>
>then add " 3 " to the end of the line and boot to run level 3.
Thanks, that works. Now I'm able to start debugging my X problem.
>
>Now you can do what is needed to get X to run, simply use "startx"
>to test it and "ctr-alt-bksp" to kill the server for the test.
>Once it is running properly just reboot back to the graphics mode.
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