[ale] SuSE 7.2 login screen incomplete, unable login

[Master Wizard]

At the boot prompt type 'single' after kernel name, such as 'linux single'. I
beleive you will have to remount root as rw. You can run e2fsck to check for
and, hopefully, repair faults. You can also reload corrupted files from backup
or original sources.
Ed.

Richard Holt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've installed SuSE 7.2 Personal Edition with 4.5GB win & 1.8GB lin,
> dual booting with win98se on Dell Latitude D300XT (PII-300, 128MB).
> Windows boots OK and Suse used to boot OK.
>
> On one occasion, suse hung or I hung it, (neither Ctrl-Alt-Bksp nor
> Ctrl-Alt-Del), and I had to cycle the power.
> Suse went through it's check but upon reaching the graphical login screen,
> the login dialog was incompletely drawn and does not respond.
> Current status: Lilo boots to KDE login but unresponsive and incomplete.
>
> This is the third time this has happened. Before I reinstalled but now
> my CD drive is bad, awaiting replacement.
>
> How do I get into a console before X and KDE load?
> Then what might help?
>
> thanks,
> Richard.
>
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