RE: [Sheflug] Mandrake 10CE not booting into X

["Steve" <steve.fisher [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm not familiar with Mandrake, but isn't there a boot CD you can boot to
>some version of "rescue mode" off of?  Then mount up your HD onto some
>convenient /mnt mount point and edit /etc/inittab (with any editor you
>like provided it's on the boot CD ;-) and look for the line that says
>id:5:initdefault.  Change the 5 to a 3 and reboot off the HD this time,
>and Robert is your proverbial mother's brother.

I will give it a pop tonight, if all else fails I think I will give either
Gentoo or Fedora Core2 a go, Mandrake was on a magazine dvd and was the
easiest choice at the time.

The other thing I have just thought of is was to try editing the xf86config4
file and going back to the built in 'nv' drivers and seeing what happens, I
will lose opengl features, but I rarely use them anyway.

Looks like I have a fun evening ahead!!!

Steve



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