*ALMOST* longing for Windows stability

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 10:10, Ian Malone wrote:
>On 06/12/06, Michael Satterwhite <michael at weblore.com> wrote:
>> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> > It sounds like X is hanging/crashing.  Can you boot to runlevel 3
>> > successfully/reliably?  if so, then you should do so, start X
>> > manually, and grab the X log to review.
>>
>> I really hate to show ignorance, but it's never stopped me before.
>> From the grub screen, how do I get it to boot to runlevel 3? I'm more
>> than willing to get information to help people help me.
>
>Press e to edit the selected boot commands and add '3' to the
>end of the line that boots the kernel. Not entirely sure where
>this is documented, but a useful piece of knowledge (especially
>if you've forgotten the root password for a machine).
>
And this is not good info either, for passwd fubars, one must use runlevel 
1 to repair them.

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>imalone

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