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Old 01-08-2004, 01:52 PM   #1
R_Shackleford
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Booting from floppy


My XF86Config is incorrect and does not allow the x11 server to initialize. My inittab is set to default to runlevel 4. So every time I try to boot, the process hangs at "starting X11 server..."
If I boot from floppy, can I specifiy any option which allow me start in runlevel 3 so that I can edit my XF86Config file? I am using Slack 9.1 with kernel 2.4.23.

I cannot boot from CD without physically swapping hardware. Otherwise would have already used Slack 9.1 CD 2 to try to fix this problem.

I know what I did wrong, and I know what the corrective action should be. But I can't get the system to boot.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Old 01-08-2004, 01:55 PM   #2
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You could make a bootdisk for 9.1, boot to the install then instead of running setup mount your filesystem then change what you need? I recently had to do that when a drive that contained /var and /tmp went down... had to copy /var back over from my backup directory and edit my fstab.
 
Old 01-08-2004, 02:08 PM   #3
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I'm not sure of the precise syntax but 'single' might get you into single-user mode and 'init=3' might get you into runlevel 3.

..Yeah. I just typed 'BasicLinux single' at the prompt on one of my boxes and it worked.
 
Old 01-10-2004, 04:42 PM   #4
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Thanks for the help. I did not successfully boot from floppy, so I had to change the CDROM drive. I used CD #2 (LiveCD). Appending the "single" command did override the inittab default.
 
  


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