Help needed...
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Tue Aug 3 10:36:43 PDT 2004
>
> Hi
>
> I am currently having a huge problem. My KDM refuse to start, so now I
> cannot get into my machine.
>
> Every time it reboots it will goes in a cycle of spewing errors. It was fine
> a few hours ago until I change the monitor config.
>
> My question is how do I stop the KDM from loading during boot up? So at
> least I can login as root and replace the new XF86config file.
>
> I tried booting to single user but I cannot "su". So without root access I
> cannot change anything.
I don't understand the previous line.
If you booted to single user, why would you need to 'su' to anything?
When you boot to single user, you effectively are root. Do I
misunderstand something you are trying to do?
Of course, when you boot to single user, you need to do a couple of
things to really be able to get around and change things.
fsck -p Just in case
mount -u / remount root to be fully read/write
mount -a mount everything else
swapon -a make sure it has some paging/swap space.
At this point you should be fully functional as root. You may
also want to run a shell other than /bin/sh for convenience.
/bin/tcsh would get you tcsh or pick your own poison.
////jerry
>
> I am using Freebsd 5.2.1. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tuck Wai
>
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