*ALMOST* longing for Windows stability

[Ian Malone]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
> 

And you get to run level 1 by...

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