OpenEuphoria

Re: off topic : WinLinux

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Nov 22, 1999
• 606 views

RedWordSmith wrote:

> I am a _new_ Linux user, and not a "serious" one at that.  Still, I would
like
> to provide an opposing view.  My personal Linux experience with Col 1.3
and
> Red Hat 6.1 (box) has been more or less pleasant (besides my current
problem,
> where I have learned that a graphical login and playing around with X
settings
> without a boot disk is not very smart (oops... if anyone should happen to
know
> a way out of this current conundrum, please let me know.))

Sure: if you are dual booting win and linux, just type  linux init S at the
prompt.
(This is using lilo, I think the same thing works if you are booting via
loadlin)

What this does is put the computer into supervisory mode, (you'll need to
give
the root password) and presents a text-mode prompt. From there, you can edit
or replace the files you messed up.

Regards,
Irv