How to I boot to a command line as a one-off?

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I am locked out of my computer because I tried to install the NVidia driver and it is hanging at: reached target graphical interface. How do I just get the computer to boot to the command line and let me delete xorg.conf and/or update it please? I’m on site and desperate to get this working. I had to reinstall drivers because I reinstalled nvram to get USB port working again it’s screwed everything up. Sorry for lack of paragraphs this Windows machine I’m on won’t let me type carriage returns! :o

#2

BTW ALT-F1 does not work as a way of getting to log-in screen as I had seen someone suggest.

#3

check out jdmcdaniel3’s blog entry on this (where booting to ‘command line’ in this case is referred to as ‘run level 3’) :
https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/how-start-opensuse-12-3-grub-2-into-run-level-3-112/

#4

Thanks. I’d seen that. Doesn’t help at all. Still getting stuck in the same place. No matter what grub options I try it always looks the same which makes me wonder whether I’m actually doing it right.

#5

Note instead of ‘just’ inserting ‘3’ you could try inserting ‘nomodeset 3’. Does that help?

Does the ‘safesettings’ (recovery mode) boot work for you ?

#6

Actually, it needed it without nomodeset altogether. Once I took that out it ws ok. Thanks a lot for the help.

#7

Glad to read its working now. Its difficult to be precise in advice, without having access to one’s pc. Thanks for sharing your solution.