*ALMOST* longing for Windows stability

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 19:56:09 UTC 2006


On 12/8/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>

Putting 1 instead of 3


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