*ALMOST* longing for Windows stability

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 08:13 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 12/6/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/6/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 06/12/06, Michael Satterwhite <michael at weblore.com> wrote:
> > > > Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > >
> > > > > It sounds like X is hanging/crashing.  Can you boot to runlevel 3
> > > > > successfully/reliably?  if so, then you should do so, start X
> > > > > manually, and grab the X log to review.
> > > >
> > > > I really hate to show ignorance, but it's never stopped me before. From
> > > > the grub screen, how do I get it to boot to runlevel 3? I'm more than
> > > > willing to get information to help people help me.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Press e to edit the selected boot commands and add '3' to the
> > > end of the line that boots the kernel. Not entirely sure where
> > > this is documented, but a useful piece of knowledge (especially
> > > if you've forgotten the root password for a machine).
> >
> > Any reason this hasn't been made easier/more intuitive in grub yet? It
> > seems most of the time this is necessary, it is by someone who doesn't
> > know how to do it yet.
> 
> Because GRUB is a GNU project, and intuitiveness is never their
> concern.  These are the same folks who brought us info pages.

Damn, I wondered why lilo was dumped in favor of grub. It must have been
Fedora's turn to feed the Stallman. Ric