>so, is there any special key combination i can use to get it back to >runlevel 3, or some other way to boot into single user mode so that i can >get at the /etc/inittab file? so far, every boot disk i've tried reads the >/etc/rc.d/ files and runs into the same problem. At the lilo: prompt type "linux single", replacing linux with whatever name you have assigned to your kernel.