InstallFest Post Mortum...

[mcmanus at AppliedTheory.com (Patrick McManus)]

[Kevin M. Gleason: Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:03:01AM -0500]
> After watching all the installs last Saturday, I tried doing another one
> with my trusty ol' Red Hat 6.2 selecting new applications and a new
> monitor but after the Full Install (and upon reboot) my screen display
> began to flash (so much that I couldn't login). How does one recover
> from choosing the right monitor with the wrong hor/vert settings? Or is
> there a recovery at all?
> 

easiest would be ctrl-alt-f1 and see if it gives you a text
console... if it does you can just kill xdm and X related things and
then run Xconfigurator (or however you configure X) to try again.

if you can't get a text console, you can boot into runlevel three from
lilo. (3 typically doesn't start xdm, but does start other user level
services.) assuming your lilo target is called linux at the lilo
prompt type "linux 3" to get into that runlevel... from there you can
do the Xconfigurator routine..

-P
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