[NTLUG:Discuss] I screwed up

[Kelledin]

On Monday 16 June 2003 05:34 pm, Will Pearson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed RedHat 9.0 on my Gateway Solo 9550 laptop a few
> days ago. The other night I was reconfiguring the display
> settings. I noticed that the Install program hadn't recognized
> my LCD, so I told it what LCD I had, or at least which one I
> 'thought' I had. I told it I had a flat panel LCD capable of
> 1600x1200 and then I set the resolution to that. Apparently I
> was wrong and now when it boots up it comes to a blank screen,
> typical if the display settings are wrong. I don't know how to
> fix this particular problem in Linux. Upon boot-up there
> doesn't appear to be a way to prevent going into XWindows but
> rather go to a command prompt. Any help would be appriciated.

Try tacking "3" or "single" onto the boot parameters--i.e. at the 
LILO prompt, you might type "linux single".

"3" tells the kernel to boot into runlevel 3 (multiuser, 
networking, no graphical login).  "single" tells it to boot into 
runlevel 1 (single user, no networking, no graphical login).

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
it still cost four figures to fix?"