my rh9.0 has been up for quite a while, with no problems.
i've upgraded to the latest nvidia release last week, and the box has been shutdown and restarted with no problems. been running fine since.

today i came home to the sound of my ups beeping.

so when i restart the box now, all i get is the nvidia splash screen flashing.
sequence: login promp, splash screen, ,login promp, splash screen, etc... this is gonna kill my monitor.

so... isn't there a key combo to bypass the X startup , ,and go directly to text mode ( init 3) ?

i was thinkin mabe reinstall drivers, check the logs......

thanks

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Boot using boot-disk and change the run-level.

and if there's no boot disk to be found ?

i thought there was a Alt-cntl-somekey to get to text mode( init 3) ?

single as a parameter on the lilo prompt.


Cheers,
Tink

Have you filled up the partition your /tmp is on?

If X cannot write its named pipe in /tmp/.X11-unix and xfs cannot write its named pipe in /tmp/.font-unix because there is no room, then X will not start, hence it crashes, but your entry in /etc/inittab says to start it again, hence it starts up but crashes, then ...

If you /tmp is not full, then check to see if xfs is running okay because unless X can find at least font "fixed" it will refuse to start.

i got it . the hint was "single parameter" by Tinkster.

@ lilo prompt.... i did cntrl-x , typed linux -s
( i opened my linux book)
dumped evertything in my /tmp , and back up !