InstallFest Post Mortum...

[Jerry Feldman]

At boot time, assuming your default tag is linux:
Boot: linux 3
This will cause you to boot up into run mode 3, which is text mode. 
Normally, when I do an install, I try to set the system up not to 
automatically boot with X, so I can test my X installation with startx. You 
can kill the X server with ctl-alt-bacspace, but in run level 5, it will simply 
respawn. Also, ctl-alt-f1 (or f2, f3, f4, f5, or f6) will put you into a virtual 
terminal from which you can set your run level back to 3 using 
/sbin/telinit 3 (or /sbin/init 3).

On 8 Mar 2001, at 8:03, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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