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Toss a n00b a bone. I've been messing with nVidia drivers trying to get 3D to work, and now when I boot to the graphical login prompt, the screen is black.
I can't see the screen to choose fail-safe login, and that took me to a graphical console anyway. I tried doing an interactive start-up, but it still loads the graphical login and never ask if that's what I really want to do.
I tried to STFW but all I found was crap about choosing a 'failsafe' session. I need to fail-safe login before that!
I see a text login on the screen for a split-second prior to the graphical login start-up. How do I stop it from loading?
I'm running Redhat 9, let me know if anything else matters.
when you get to the loader (grub or lilo) hit TAB and type 'linux 3'.
This _SHOULD_ load the box into runlevel 3 which is everything but video (usually). Fix your problem, type 'init 5' at the prompt as root to get your login screen.
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