[Gllug] getting a suse to boot

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Juan AMIGUET announce to the hordes:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a suse box that refuses to boot saying
> Master Resource control, previous runlevel N switching to runlevel 5
> 
> the problem is that because it is booting up tin graphical mode 
> "which is very pretty" I cant get a login prompt so I acan start 
> looking at what went wrong and so on.
> 
> Any clues at how do I get a text mode prompt.
> 
> I have tried the Kill xserver crtl alt backspace and nothing happens.

At the boot menu, type "linux 3".
This forces runlevel 3 rather than 5, which is everything 5 is, apart from
graphical login.

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