x windows screws up, anyway to get cmd line?

[Automator]

I edited my inittab to load xwindows but, i didnt have my geforce drivers on so it screws up, now i cant get back to the command line, anyone help me out?

thanks

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[genlee]

what boot loader? You can pass the default init level to the kernel from there.

[majorwoo]

you can probably also switch to a virtual terminal

CTRL+ALT+F1

and change

/etc/inittab back to reunlevel 3 or (more likley) fix your driver problem

[Automator]

lilo is the boat loader
and how do i pass the default kernal from there?

[majorwoo]

you press

CTRL + X

at the lilo screen to drop to command line and

linux init=/bin/bash

will get you a shell, as root

[Automator]

hrm, ctrl x does not do anything, just sits there at lilo loader with prompt of

boot:


this is slackware by the way, if it helps

[Automator]

well i got to cmd line
but it wont let me edit inittab its write protected

[genlee]

when you get to boot: in lilo try this. linux init=3 that should put you in a multiuser mode without x. I think the other way might have mounted / as ro which is why it would be write-protected. mount -o remount,rw / would remount that read/write so you can change inittab.