On 03/09/12 16:39, Thomas Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:07:28 +1000 Basil Chupin
wrote: On 03/09/12 14:29, Michael Chang wrote:
I used Grub2 when I installed 12.2 Bld #167 DVD iso last earlier today.
How do I get to see the boot menu to enter "init 3"on the bott command line (used to be hold down SHIFT to do this)? Anyone know, please? Move highlight to your desired menu entry and type 'e' to enter editor mode. You could then append "3" to your existing kernel
2012/9/3 Basil Chupin
: parameters. Thanks, Michael Thanks, Michael, for your response but....no, this is not the answer. The command '3' or 'init 3' is not "recognised" :-( .
(Oh for the simplicity of grub legacy! :-( )
BC
Hi Basil, You don't need to go to console during boot. Once you're in level 5 (kde or gnome) just log out and change the login to console then do the compile. That's the way I've been doing it for 2-3 years.
Thank you, Thomas, for the response. I've been doing what you suggest below [snipped] for many years. I have a very specific reason for asking what I did. If the kernel has been upgraded at any time, you need to reboot the computer and when you do then you get nowhere when the machine reboots because I/you don't get a screen to look at - reason being is that the nVidia driver does not match the new kernel and the driver, therefore, has to be recompiled. To compile the driver I/you need to get to a command line prompt (in level 3), login as root and then proceed to compile the driver. Once the compiling is finished, typing "init 5" will get you into the system again and for you to be able to login as the user. [........................] BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.8.4 & kernel 3.5.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org