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Author:  Merko [ Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:28 am ]
Post subject:  Interrupting boot process
Unfortunately the only monitor I have access to now does'nt work with the screen mode that I have configured. I don't have much access to anything over here, so what I'd need to do is interrupting the boot process so I can edit the config files from the text mode console.

I think there should be some key combination to do this, but I can't find it. Anyone who knows?
Author:  Neko [ Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Interrupting boot process
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Unfortunately the only monitor I have access to now does'nt work with the screen mode that I have configured. I don't have much access to anything over here, so what I'd need to do is interrupting the boot process so I can edit the config files from the text mode console.

I think there should be some key combination to do this, but I can't find it. Anyone who knows?
What do you want to do exactly?

Make Debian stop before it boots X?

Make Debian boot a different fbconsole mode that you can use?

Probably what you could do is simply do;

boot hd:0 debiankernel radeonfb:800x600-32@60 single

That will give you a really low resolution console and drop you into single user mode. You can edit any text files you need on the root filesystem from there (after mounting it..) and get the settings you need.
Author:  Merko [ Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:05 am ]
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Sounds just fine, I'll try it tonight when I get back home. Thanks a lot.
Author:  ironfist [ Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:59 pm ]
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You can also boot with init=/bin/bash and it will give you a console.
Author:  Merko [ Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:44 pm ]
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I did as neko said and it worked just fine. It didn't really seem to use the 800x600 part though, but I could log in in text mode and fix the problem.
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