Hi , Well i was having a wonderful fresh installation of redhat linux 7.1 until yesterday. Actually it's my office machone, with NT and linux in 2 partitions and with dual-boot option. Everything was working fine - internet, network and mail - was working fine in linux. Today i had to change my IP address in linux as my IP was changed in office network and also my VLAN was changed. So the IP i got from DHCP in NT, i put that IP as static IP in linux. Lease for this IP is uptil coming monday. So while confirming this IP change in linux, i got a window saying i need to restart the network services and options "Do it", "DO nothing" and 2 other options. I chose Do it. But the machine hanged and i had to reboot it after 10 minutes of no response. After that hard reboot, i am not able to login as root either via KDE or GNOME. I am able to login as other users succesfully in both KDE and GNOME. Also when i login as non-root user, i am not able to launch any apps from the KDE panel. Also how do i skip runlevel 5 and go to runlevel 3 in my particular sesion in/after system bringup, i.e without changing /etc/inittab ??? Any help would be appreciated. cheers, aman :)

at the lilo prompt type linux 1 this will boot into single user - you will be root. reset your password. for runlevel three, type linux 3 you should be able to have linux be a dhcp client on your lan.