Re: Breaking at startup

[Jason Drake <jdrake@windchill.com>]

Question:  how do you break the startup cycle?  My laptop boots
into the
login screen (Debian).  However, I have lost my mouse again. 
The
keyboard works but all I can do is login into the login screen (shows
the title Debian GNU/Linux) and I have the Debian splash screen. 
I
can't get to a shell in order to fix the XF86Config file.  I can't
telnet into the box because I just brought it home from work where
it
gets it's IP address from a DHCP server.  The rescue disk also
boots
into the login screen.  Can I break the bootup process before
it hits
xdm?  If so, how?  I have tried Ctrl-C but no joy.

Hi Dave,
    I know the situation you are talking about (I don't know how many times I have swapped out a video card not remembering to disable gdm etc.

I know with RH6.2 when it tries to load user defined services you can press 'i' which will put it into interactive mode and you can define y/n/etc
for each service (including things like gdm or X)

I use SUSE here at work, but  since I haven't rebooted in 4+ months I am not sure what it shows. :)

Look for some kind of key interrupter during boot.

Regards,
        Jason
 
 
 

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