On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Douglas Furlong wrote:
The boot parameter "3" brings the system to "multi user, no X".
The OP has problem with runlevel-3 - hence 'single' was sugested.
I guess to get networking - he could do (after booting into single user mode):
init 3
And then get the latest kernel/xorg packages and try again.
Satish