Thanks for the answers all! -----Original Message----- From: Richard [mailto:ratcheson@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:52 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] boot to command line ??? On Friday 05 November 2004 05:37 pm, Paul Agner wrote:

Hi All, I had an older installation of suse 8.1 crash on me. I am no longer able to boot into the gui.

It goes as far as the login screen, and just before the login window appears, it freezes.

My question is. How can i boot in text only mode? I did it the other day by accident, and was able to CD around on the hard drives .... I desperately need to get the data off this machine as it was a server

When your first boot screen appears, press a key then in the line near the bottom of the screen, insert init 3 and hit enter. I t should boot into level three from there. RA -- Old age ain't for Sissies! -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com