[Wolves] Booting to command line in Fedora

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 13:40, David Goodwin wrote:

> Wayne's original email says something about the GUI being corrupt....
>
> | My GUI is corrupt, and I can't seem to get to a command line from boot
> | or from the failed GUI start up.
> | How do I do it/?
>
> If this is the case then X has a problem.. but the Virtual Console
> things should work fine.
>
> If he means that he tried to boot into Single user mode, and this
> failed, then I suspect he has somehow deleted his kernel(s) or the boot
> loader itself is broken... in which case he'll need to resort to using a
> rescue disk, or reinstalling.

Not trying to catch you out, I was just curious.

As you say if he has deleted a kernel then my suggestion might work if he 
still has an old one installed.

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Peter Cannon

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