[ale] Newbie question.

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

William Oakes wrote:

> I am running fedora core 5 on a duel boot WinXP-fedora box.  I am presently
> in fedora as root at the init 3 level.  I made the mistake of typing <shift>
> X on the command line and wound up looking at a black screen with only the x
> cursor showing.
> 
> I have tried just about everything I can think of to get out of it (i.e.
> <Esc>, <ctrl> c, <alt> F1 etc, <ctrl><alt><del>) without rebooting the box
> and crashing Linux.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions or procedures to remedy this situation.

Ctrl-Alt-F1 should put you back at the initial console prompt.

HTH,

-- JK