Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:56 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Kyle Lanigan wrote:
> 
> >>>> Have you tried logging in in text mode?
> ...
> >> Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by Ctrl-Alt-F1,
> >> or alternatively by using something like Knoppix to edit /etc/inittab
> >> and change id:5 to id:3 .
> 
> > The Live CD works amazingly fine on my computer.
> > If possible, could you give an in-depth instruction on what to do with
> > the ID:5 change to ID:3?
> 
> Firstly, I'm no Fedora guru, and the other Tim is much more likely than me
> to have the correct diagnosis.
> 
> It is just that if the system freezes in this sort of way,
> my first step would be to eliminate problems with X by running in text-mode.
> 
> One way to do this is to edit /etc/inittab, and change the line
> id:5:initdefault:
> to
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> This line in inittab determines which mode linux boots into.
> 
> The trouble is, if the system is not working it is not clear
> how you can edit this file.

You don't need to edit /etc/inittab. When the Fedora splash screen
appears during the boot process, hit 'a' followed by '3'. This will
append a 3 to the boot command line, which means 'boot into mode 3'.

poc