[snip] >> leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just >> using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely >> re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution >> though. [snip] > Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid > a reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user mode(which
That, too, is overkill. Just press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to a virtual console where getty is waiting to log you in. By default, you have 6 vc's, which you can reach by pressing alt-F1 through alt-F6 (use ctrl-alt in X), and X starts at vc 7. (And yes, you can have more than one X session). I think you get 64 vc's as a Linux kernel default; for more, you must recompile the kernel. I think Debian's installation scripts mention something about this when you install. If they don't, they should.
