From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 09:10:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BDED966.5090307@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100503135725.GM4474@ca.inter.net>
Philip Webb wrote:
> 100503 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>
>> I can't disable my xdm login script.
>> My computer boots to the login screen
>> and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session.
>>
> Yes, it happened to me long ago,
> after which I decided always to boot to a raw terminal, then do 'startx'.
>
> You need to use System Rescue or similar to get into the box,
> then change your boot procedure to boot to a raw terminal.
>
>
Or add softlevel=single to the boot line in grub. That would be, edit
the grub line before booting.
I think there is a interactive mode or something too. It is done by
hitting the "I" key during the first part of the boot up. Just say No
to xdm or whatever starts your GUI.
Lots of options here. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-03 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-03 13:31 [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:40 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-05-03 13:44 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:57 ` Philip Webb
2010-05-03 14:10 ` Dale [this message]
2010-05-03 20:13 ` CJoeB
2010-05-03 22:53 ` Dale
2010-05-03 14:26 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-04 9:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-03 13:41 ` Indexer
2010-05-03 13:47 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 13:58 ` Indexer
2010-05-03 14:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 14:30 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 14:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 15:06 ` KH
2010-05-03 15:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-03 16:22 ` Willie Wong
2010-05-03 16:41 ` Dale
2010-05-03 14:56 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-05-03 14:07 ` Dale
2010-05-03 13:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2010-05-03 13:49 ` Colleen Beamer
2010-05-03 14:40 ` Remy Blank
2010-05-03 15:09 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-05-03 16:04 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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