System Hosed a.k.a Don't be nice to the wife and Mother-in-law!!
OK,
The Mistakes
It was all my stupid mistake. I was working with some tar's having fun
hacking in Debian, and then my wife and mother-in-law need to use the
computer to web browse. So since I had netscape running in Debian and that
what they use in Win95, I decided to be nice and let them use Debian instead
of logging out rebooting and all that. Fatal mistake 1. Fatal mistake 2 -- I
was logged in as root. Anyway I check on them an hour later and there in
Windows - WHAT THE FFF, How!! So the get done. I discovered that they just
shut the machine off and started again!!!!!
The Problem
So here is the problem. I boot to wdm. But now it does startx it drops and
my screen flashes off and on. I need to disable wdm before it starts. I
can't crtl+alt+backspace, crtl+c, crtl+z or even crtl+alt+F3. I tried to
use the rescue disk but it booted me to wdm. How can I boot to the console,
I must be missing a parameter for the rescue method. Also, I normally boot
with loadlin!!
Roderick P. Person
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personrp@ccbh.com
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