Stopping X

2004-02-22 Thread Nicholas Williams
Hello, I have just installed Debian onto my powerbook, but I think I misconfigured X. When it starts up, there is nothing but jumbled graphics. I would like to boot without X so I can try and fix it, but I cant seem to do that. I tried ctl-option-delete and ctl-option-f1m but that just restarts

booting kernel

2004-02-04 Thread Nicholas Williams
Hello, I just tried the debian installer, from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/ powerpc/daily/ The base system installed, but the bootloader did not. The installer said I would need to "boot the kernel by hand using the root=/dev/ hda4 option." I am a new linux user, so