[Techtalk] My X display is fubar

/dev/null dev_null at iriXx.org
Tue Jun 4 20:07:19 EST 2002


this is also how i've done it in the past, on mandrake 7.x distros,

LILO:  linux single root=/dev/sdd1
(or wherever your linux mount point is...)

this should get you as far as a root-only command prompt... but of 
course this doesnt help at all if LILO has failed... or with grub and 
these graphical displays that Mandrake 8.x defaults to...

a good reminder to me to switch my bootloader to LILO text mode on my 
next boot up instead of that annoying but pretty graphical mode....

but does anyone know how to get around this with grub or how to get out 
of graphical bootup once its runnning?... i guess a rescue disk would do 
it (not having had to try so far, touch wood, i dont know...)

this also looks rather interesting - the LILO Crash Rescue How-to (which 
i wasnt aware existed...) it shows how to get in using the Tiny Linux 
distros on a floppy to mend things...
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO.html

bw & hth

miriam

hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:01:48AM -0700 or thereabouts, Dave North wrote:
> 
>>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...)
>>
> 
> Mary and others beat me to it with init commands, whilst I was
> still reading 'man telinit'.
> 
> But this means I remember seeing this in man telinit. I have deleted
> the explanations (how helpful, eh? -- but they were a bit long)
> 
> BOOTFLAGS
>        It  is possible to pass a number of flags to init from the
>        boot monitor (eg. LILO). Init accepts the following flags:
> 
>        -s, S, single
>        -b, emergency
>        -z xxx
> 
> ...and 1-5, of course.
> 
> How well this works with grub, I don't know. But is this what you
> were looking for?
> 
> This is a RH 7.3 box, and the package came from:
> [hobbit at aloss hobbit]$ rpm -qf /sbin/telinit
> SysVinit-2.84-2
> 
> Telsa
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