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Just installed Peanut Linux
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| barrylb 2002-09-28, 1:29 pm |
| Everything worked fine until I used edit to change the inittab file. I
changed the id:3 to id:4 to try the graphics mode rather than the text. Now
the system hangs how to I get to this file to change it back to text mode.
File is on a linux partition and I am booting from dos and cant see the
linux partition.
Thanks
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| Bruce Burhans 2002-09-28, 1:29 pm |
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"barrylb" <barrylb@attcanada.ca> wrote in message
news:Ykml9.13787$H67.64060@tor-nn1.netcom.ca...
> Everything worked fine until I used edit to change the inittab file. I
> changed the id:3 to id:4 to try the graphics mode rather than the text.
Now
> the system hangs how to I get to this file to change it back to text mode.
> File is on a linux partition and I am booting from dos and cant see the
> linux partition.
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> Thanks
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>
Sounds like you need a Rescue floppy.....
Like Tomsbtrt......
http://freshmeat.net/redir/tomsrtbt/10688/url_homepage/
Boot up this little distro....
Then you mount the harddrive filesystems on
a mount point like /mnt (which has to be on the root filesystem on the
floppy ) and do whatever work
needs to be done on it....
something like
mount -t ext2 .dev/hda? /mnt
then /mnt/usr/bin/vi to edit (or whatever)
make sure your bios is set to boot from floppy
first.......
HTH
Bruce<+>
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| Peter T. Breuer 2002-09-28, 1:29 pm |
| barrylb <barrylb@attcanada.ca> wrote:
> Everything worked fine until I used edit to change the inittab file. I
> changed the id:3 to id:4 to try the graphics mode rather than the text. Now
> the system hangs how to I get to this file to change it back to text mode.
Boot with "3" as a boot parameter.
Peter
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