[Techtalk] My X display is fubar

[Dave North]

Mary:
> If you want to go to runlevel 3 just once, execute "init 3" as root.
Robyn:
> In the original email this lady couldn't get to a command prompt and
> could only go into failsafe mode.

Quite right. But that raised a question in my mind: is there some way to
feed in a boot parameter that will cut the runlevel back (bypassing
graphic login? Anybody know? I'd like to know how to do that...)

Dave