Re: [gNewSense-users] Not able to reach Login screen - Display issue

[Tor at Shared Genius]

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Michał Masłowski wrote:
>> As for fixing it, if you really can't get a prompt (see my other email),
>> you may be able to do the same thing after using chroot to set the
>> apparent root directory.  You'll have to do some reading on how chroot
>> works, unless someone else is more familiar with this (SamGee? Karl?) can
>> give you detailed instructions.  I only have a bare trifle of experience
>> from trying to debootstrap a system once.
> 
> Does gNS support something like single-user mode which would enter a
> root shell instead of running X and some other services?
> 
There is the recovery mode that can be entered from grub, at least in the
default setup.  I really haven't used it, but IIRC it will boot to a
shell login without X, so it may work just fine.  If you have a pretty
grub screen you may need to hit escape to get the boot list.

If you have grub locked down you'll need to know whatever information you
used when you set it up... though as long as root isn't encrypted you can
easily use a live CD to modify /boot/grub/menu.lst and remove a password.

Tor

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