Do not mess around with files in /boot! What you want to do is on the grub screen (where you can pick the OS to start) a) stop the timer ;-) b) select the Linux Mint entry c) "[e]dit" it (this depends a bit on the grub setup, but usually there's either a selectable "button" or you just press "e" d) append " 1" (nothing else) e) (b)oot that command.
This should really get you into runlevel 1, ie. a root (text)shell Runlevel 1 is a boot directly into a rootshell (no GUI, no network - but you can start either by hand), 3 is the CLI login (which will likely not work because this very interesting distro doesn't seem to install a/getty) and 5 is the GUI login. I'd also say that you should rather seek advise in a Mint forum, since the problem seems to be specific to that distro. Thomas _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
