I've been having a problem with my mouse... as soon as I boot, I go to X-windows (more correctly, it goes into runlevel 5), and my mouse gets disabled. Unfortunately, so does my keyboard.

So how do I change the runlevel at boot? I just need to boot into a console (init 3).

Can anyone help me out?

highlight 'linux' if it isn't already, then type linux 2 in the box.

?... where am I supposed to do this?

...when GRUB (the boot loader) comes up with the blue and white choice screen with the 8 second countdown. Hit a key to stop this, and type in the box at the bottom of the screen.

Dave

Hmm... I don't see a box where I can type anything in.

I'm using GRUB 0.93.

It says to press 'e' to edit the commands before booting, and 'c' for a command line.

I tried the command line, and put in both 'linux' and 'linux 2' (no quotes), it doesn't recognize either.

Hitting e brings up a screen with 2 lines, neither of which I understand (things like dma=no (may not have actually said no, but stuff like that), something about the kernel...).

I don't want to edit these without knowing what I'm doing, for fear of messing up my system.

can anyone help?...

or can anyone tell me how to do an interactive boot?

or a rescue disk I can use to fix my config file?

anyone?

or if you know a linux distro I can put on a disk and use to edit my config files...

Or a kernel argument...?
Just some way to stop X from starting...

Please can someone help?



EDIT: Yay! I fixed it!

I edited the boot commands in GRUB, and added 'init 3'...

Thanks for your help anyways

<wanders off to toy with linux>

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