need to boot in single user tty mode - no GUI
Asked by
billhatch40
on 2008-02-02
My X-Windows on 7.10 is stuck in a funny mode. I can not login. Using the ctl-alt F2 to get a character console results in a character login but X-Windows still keeps trying to start and crashing.
My computer is a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527.
I would like to boot the system up in a single user character terminal mode -- i.e without X-windows -- so I can mount a USB drive and back up my files.
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Use 'Recovery mode' (by default second choise in grub).
| billhatch40 (billhatch40) said : | #2 |
Thanks for the hint. My solution was to boot from the CD, plug in the USB disk, and copy my files to the USB disk.
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