[wplug] Booting without XServer

[Brian Medley]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:30:10PM -0500, Jonathan Colby wrote:

> start just before my graphical login....then the screen goes black.  I think
> I probably need to run xf86config, but I can't get to a shell to do it!  Is
> there any way I can 'boot to a command prompt', so to speak.  Boot to a BASH
> shell without starting XServer??  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated,
> thanks!

When you boot the computer I assume it uses grub or lilo?  If so, add a '3'
to the end of the kernel boot options there.

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