Sigh...fubar'd my linux

[MattG]

WTH...im trying to install my sound drivers right.

I go to the official webiste, get the official drivers for linux.

Read the readme, and they tell me to put some lines in my Modules.conf file.

So i do.

And now, when the system loads(it auto loads GNOME) it wont load it, saying there was an error. And gives me a chance to fix it, so i try to fix it, and it does the same thing.

now i cant get to that file to delete what i put in!

I tried a boot disk..it leads to the SAME thing.

HELP!

How can i get it to NOT load X on startup for just a 1 time thing?

I need to get to that 1 file to edit it.

oh, btw when i quit out of that fix X thing, it just leaves me hanging at server messages and i cant do anything.

Any help would be great. i dont wanna have to reinstall again..

 

[Phantasm66]

you can get it not to load X on startup by issuing this command:

linux 3

at the boot: prompt if you installed LILO as your boot manager.

Don't reinstall - that's for cowards.

 

[Phantasm66]

Failing that, you can boot from the installation CD, get to a rescue command prompt (which will be a small linux install written into RAM only), then issue these commands:

make a mount point:
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mkdir /mnt/sysimage

mount your linux partition there
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mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/sysimage

(where hda7 is your / partition.)

Now chroot (change root) so that you are using hda7 as your / and not the RAM disk
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chroot /mnt/sysimage


Now, fix the problem using the pico text editor, or vi or something. Make copies of configuration files before you edit them, in case you have to switch them back.

now type

exit

exit

until machine reboots.

 

[MattG]

First part didnt work.

Second worked like you said it would.

Thanks alot bro. again

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

You can also kill X with ctrl+alt+backspace.