Ibook freezes during boot up
 

Hi
Because I changed my XF86Config file (incorrectly) my Ibook g4 freezes after starting gdm. How can I prevent Linux from starting the Xserver and replace my config file?

What distro are you using? What changes did you make? Provide details if you want answers.

You can edit your /etc/inittab file and select to boot into the console runlevel, usually 3 on many distros (the comments in the file should indicate which runlevel for sure).

Boot into console, and make whatever changes you need. Hopefully you were smart enough to make a backup of the config file you borked.

on boot pass cmdline to kernel:
init=/bin/sh
edit /etc/inittab, so initdefault is 3 (not 5)
/sbin/shutdown -r now

I use Debian and the yaboot bootloader

@raskin: It only says: No such file ...

I could just use a live-cd, mount the hd, then replace the config file with my backup and normally reboot, couldn't I?

Ah, you have live-cd? Surely you can use backup. Most probably it will help.