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Old 06-10-2011, 08:24 AM   #1
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Messed up my inittab! It boots into black screen.

Hi, I was following a lesson with my UNIX Academy training and by mistake made a change to inittab. now it boots into black screen. How can I get into shell to fix inittab
 
Old 06-10-2011, 08:47 AM   #2
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Not knowing exactly what you did, the easiest way would be to boot from a CD, mount the drive and change it back to the way it was.
 
Old 06-11-2011, 09:15 AM   #3
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Yep, I can do it with CD boot, thanks. I also found a way of doing it by instructing Grub going into different run-level.
 
  


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