Linux expert. How to bypass lilo ?

[Johnnytoxic]

Hi guys im a bit of a linux newbie and need to bypass the lilo boot menu.

How do you just get to a basic level from the boot: prompt.

I remember specifying an image to use but I forgot how to do it. Is it bash?

 

[DRZ]

Why do you want to get around LILO? What is it specifically you want to do when you are past LILO?

P.S. This is in the wrong forum!

 

[Werewolf]

you need Lill...

 

[Johnnytoxic]

I messed up rc.local and now I can't get into KDE. So I just need a basic boot as it were to change it.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Which distro are you using?

 

[tntcoder]

I messed up rc.local and now I can't get into KDE. So I just need a basic boot as it were to change it.

You will need to boot into single user mode (run level 1), which may or may not be disabled in your distro.

The best thing to do here would be to boot to a live cd and fix the files there.

If you must bypass lilo though, press ctrl+x which should bring you up a prompt, type "boot: linux single". That should do the job.

But yer, much easier to boot to a recovery/live cd for stuff like this.

 

[Johnnytoxic]

Ahhh I will get the Live CD to fix . I'm on slackware.

 

[GarethDW]

The best thing to do here would be to boot to a live cd and fix the files there.

Tis what I was thinking too.

 

[pingwing]

Just boot into the command line and login as root? usually it should just fail to load X then you go for a ctrl alt backspace to kill X and bam COMMANDLINE heaven! N then put it back to normal..