There are those who would have you believe that Joseph Holland King wrote: > i just installed debian yesterday. today i downloaded and compiled the x > server and tried to get x running. in oreder to do so i rebooted my system > to make it recognize the mouse. when it tried to reboot it stopped with > the error message that the x font server did not recognize the argument > passed in. now it won't boot and since the master boot record won't allow > me to boot directly into single user mode (at least not in any way that i > am aware of). also i was not able to make a boot disk during installation > due to some other problems. is there anything that i can do in order to > get my system to boot correctly and to get x to work? thank you. >
At the lilo boot prompt you can enter "linux single" to boot into single-user mode (as long as your linux image is called linux in lilo.conf). You could boot from the installation CD or floppies, mount your root partition, and either edit the inittab to not start X at boottime or remove the link that starts xfs.
