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by **carillonator** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:26 pm

I changed my /etc/inittab to run gdm on runlevel 5, but it's not working. I can't for the life of me figure out how to boot into runlevel 3 to fix this.

I can get to the ok prompt just fine---now what?

thanks!!

by **ektoric** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:22 pm

I haven't tried this yet myself, so please experiment carefully:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lesson_13#Text_editing

by **carillonator** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:57 am

good idea, but unfortunately no emacs there. and no apparent way to mount the filesystem either.

I can't believe no one knows how to boot to a command line only.

by **ektoric** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:06 am

In that section, it also talks about nvread, nvedit, nvwrite (again, I have not tried this. attempt at your own risk).

On the other hand, something that I have done very successfully is to boot to USB & SD. I have installed an http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_USB_disks and used that to boot. I then mount the flash and edit at will. good luck!

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