Broken R H 7.3, Rescue ?

[gboyce at badbelly.com]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 karina.popkova at verizon.net wrote:

> Hello
> I broken my Laptop (RH 7.3), and don't know how...
> Dual Boot machine, RH will not complete boot (but Windoze boots ok).
> try to boot and init runs to "starting wine" which to me is about end of boot sequence. Then I expect Red Hat Icon (splash screen?)
> but appears to hang before seeing Icon...
>
> then sits there and periodically flashes
> some micro message on LCD such as 'Red Hat 7.3 installed'
> for about click of finger (50 millisecs.)

If you specify a boot option of "single" from either lilo or grub, you can 
boot into single user mode will won't bother attempting to start up most 
extras.