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... best regards, Paul Agner pagner@consumerinfo.com 949-567-3748
* Paul Agner
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 the boot screen displays, type "init 3" <enter> -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 18:37, 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...
best regards,
Simply enter a 3 on the boot command line and hit enter. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*
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...
best regards,
Paul Agner pagner@consumerinfo.com 949-567-3748
When you reach the Grub startup screen, type 'single' and you will start up in single user mode. You can then edit the inittab file and change the startup to init 3 if you want to start up in normal, none gui mode. Then reboot. HTH jalal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E
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!
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 17:37, 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...
At he boot prompt input: init 3 and then press enter, it will stop before reaching run level five. You'll still have access to yast(ncurses) if so needed. Mike
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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...
If you have a copy of knoppix on a cd you can boot to that and do a burn of your data using k3b. It takes a bit of doing but it does bail you out for files you didn't backup <G> IIRC Suse's 9.2 eval disk wouldn't let me see anything on the HD so knoppix 3.4 -3.6 versions will let you rescue your files as you can actually get to files on the HD and it has k3b as I mentioned. -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit
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