How to boot without the X window system?
Charles Landau
clandau at macslab.com
Fri Apr 23 02:59:39 UTC 2004
At 4:06 PM +0100 4/22/04, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>On Thursday 22 Apr 2004 4:05 pm, Charles Landau wrote:
>> >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.
>>
>
>In that case, have a look at /etc/inittab. You should see something like
>
>1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
>
>once per vertual console, usually from 1 to 5 - it may be that console 1 is
>missing. This is common to prevent it stamping on bootup messages. Try doing
>CTRL+ALT+F2 instead.
All consoles are there in /etc/inittab. Console 1 was simply busy
running X. The answer was to use CTRL+ALT+Backspace to terminate X.
It's good to know about the other consoles, though. Thanks.
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