[CLUE-Tech] Building Kernel w/Debian

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Randy,

It seems that your /etc/inittab is setup to start xdm on your chosen
run level. You might want to modify your boot menu (either Lilo or
Grub) to have an X startup as well as a Text startup. This is useful
if you like to spend lots of time rebuilding kernels or tweaking
X-servers.

These menu items would start the kernel at run levels 3 or 5, or
whatever is appropriate for the distro. You could make the default use
whatever is set in inittab, make the other one set a different run
level.

lilo.conf:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14  3
---------------------------^^^

grub.conf:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 ro root=/dev/hda1  3
----------------------------------------------^^^

Also both boot loaders can be used to specify the run level when
selected from the menu.

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> 
> Bad news:  When I rebooted xdm took control (don't know
> why, I didn't have it configured before) and when I log in
> there are no menus available.  I do have a three button 
> mouse, so when I click the left button I get a menu box.
> However, the only thing there is a debian menu, and the 
> only thing on it is python.  When I run that it is just a 
> python programming interface prompt in an xterm like window.
>