Cool4 Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 Hi everyone, i was trying to install my nvidia drivers and the readme said to kill X before installing by editing /etc/inittab so i did, but i put a '#' (comment) in the wrong place (last line of the file). I should've checked this topic before doing such a dumb thing :blush: Anyway, now how can I boot into the console to solve this problem? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight' Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 I guess you need to remove XDM from booting, I figure you run a graphical logon? Also edit your /etc/rc.conf and comment out the relevent bit. That way X won't run on startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool4 Posted March 12, 2005 Author Share Posted March 12, 2005 my problem is to figure out how to use the console to edit files :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 use a console based text editor like nano, pico, vi (...) u do: nano /etc/inittab make changes to the file exit and save with CTRL+X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight' Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 Well, you could boot with a liveCD and chroot into your environment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool4 Posted March 12, 2005 Author Share Posted March 12, 2005 yep i can boot, but i don't have a live cd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 12, 2005 Veteran Share Posted March 12, 2005 Well, can you boot into any sort of login prompt? Secondly, can you log in? If so, then you should be able to re-edit whatever got messed-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight' Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 What exactly is going wrong with your system, can you bring X up? Does GDM crash? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool4 Posted March 12, 2005 Author Share Posted March 12, 2005 when booting the system freezes after the loading bar is complete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameOverRob Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 bummer can't you do a simple system restore or sumthin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool4 Posted March 12, 2005 Author Share Posted March 12, 2005 Just solved the problem i didn't knew that you could type ctrl+alt+Fx to make the switch to a console while booting :blush: I got the problem solved now, thanks everyone for your help ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted March 13, 2005 Share Posted March 13, 2005 real men use vi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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