bypass rc.conf file?

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My installation of FreeBSD is currently suffering video problems when gnome starts automatically (Have another thread going) But what I initially need to do is figure out how to boot my laptop, without FreeBSD parsing the rc.conf file so I can get to a terminal.

-How do I do this?

Thanks all
 
simply disable gnome ;)
You sill be able to login to terminal

and then you can use startx to start X server (and gnome)
For how to configure ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession search forum
 
Sorry in case I wasn't clear, I can't get to my terminal as gnome is starting automatically, as

Code: 
gnome_enable="YES"

is already in my rc.conf. Which, is problematic as I loose my display and can't get control over the system again shortly after xorg starts to load the neomagic driver as configured in my xorg.conf.

So, ideally I want to know how under these circumstances I can get back to a root terminal :( I could re-install FreeBSD but I won't learn anything that way :)

Thanks for your response!
 
killasmurf86 said:
tried hitting: Ctrl+Alt+F1 ?
also you can boot into Single User mode (during boot loader count down)
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Fantastic! Thank you! I booted into single user mode and mounted the FS as root, edited the rc.conf file and I've got a usuable system again, thank you!
 
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