Disaster now no GUI

Jim Douglas jdz99 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 14 20:03:28 UTC 2006


>From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Disaster now no GUI
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:13:29 +0000 (UTC)
>
>Jim Douglas <jdz99 <at> hotmail.com> writes:
> > >Edit the boot commands in GRUB, add a space and the number 3 to the 
>kernel
> > >command line (telling the kernel to boot in runlevel 3, i.e. without 
>GUI),
> > >log
> > >in as root and run:
> > >system-config-display --reconfig
> > >Configure a valid (resolution, color depth, refresh rate) triplet, 
>click OK
> > >and
> > >reboot (this time without forcing runlevel 3).
> > >
> > >         Kevin Kofler
> >
> > system-config-display --reconfig doesn't work from linux rescue.
>
>Which is why I asked you to boot the live system into runlevel 3, not to 
>boot
>from the rescue disk. This kind of situations is what GRUB lets you edit 
>the
>kernel command line for.
>
>I forgot one thing though in the above instructions: Your kernel command 
>line
>probably contains "rhgb" (as this is set by default). That is the Red Hat
>Graphical Boot, which runs X11 even before you can login to the console. So
>remove "rghb" from the kernel command line and write "3" (without the 
>quotes)
>there instead.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
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How do you Edit the boot commands in GRUB?  What file is it?

Jim





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