Booting without Gnome

Matt Galvin matt.t.galvin at gmail.com
Sat Jul 30 03:21:08 UTC 2005


On 7/29/05, Tony <tony.kruse at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am installing Ubuntu PPC Hoary on a Mac Mini.  It appeared to
> install correctly, but upon reboot the screen goes blank and I am
> getting a message that the frequency of the monitor is out of range.
> Can I boot to a command prompt without initiating Gnome (assuming that
> it is an x.org config problem)?
> 
> I have tried bringing up a different console using CTRL-ALT-F* but I
> get no response.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony

Try booting in recovery mode, that should boot up into just the
console and allow you to reconfigure X.

Matt




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