Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:36:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: tuckwai@evoluxion.com.sg (Lam Tuck Wai) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed... Message-ID: <200408031736.i73HadJ28173@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040803170817.BCCCA25AF0A@infoserve.com.sg> from "Lam Tuck Wai" at Aug 04, 2004 01:08:05 AM
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> > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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