Hi, After using Xconfigurator to change my video setting, GRUB cannot come out. How can I boot Linux 7.2 into shell and run Xconfigurator again? Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

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Thanks for your prompt reply, snot. Because I configured to directly boot into GRUB and Xwindow, any booting methods seem to goto xwindow. My question is: how to get into shell instead of xwindow. Please help.

Try ctrl-alt-F2. ctrl-alt-f7 will get you back to xwindows. remember you must restart xwindows for your changes to take effect.

I have wanted to know how to get to a 'full screen' of Linux with the command line. Rather than just open a 'window.' Soooo i tried Ctrl-Alt-F2 ...boom I have an very bright orange screen with a blinking cursor about two thirds up the screen on the right edge but no prompt and no movement of cursor. Ctrl-Alt-F7 doesn't do anything. I just ftp'ed into the machine but after this it appears locked up with no ftp or web access to we server. Is there a way to 'toggle' out of gui in Mandrake 8.0 ?

If you use grub, you can do the following: Select your boot stuff, type: e select the line beginning with kernel = go to the end of the line and type init=/bin/sh hit enter or: b and you are in. fore you can make changes, you need to remount root as read/write: mount / -o remount,rw I also would recommend to set initmode to 3 in /etc/inittab just until you fix your problem.

Use pico, vi, or whatever to edit the /etc/inittab file and change the line that reads: id:5:initdefault: so that it does not start in X11 by changing it to the following: id:3:initdefault: