[PLUG] HELP! Totally hosed my laptop! X won't start!

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 29 May 2006 21:06:08 -0700
Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> dijo:

> I see from later messages that you managed to solve your issue.
> Nonetheless, here's a suggestion for future reference.  It's very likely
> that your kernel update did not remove the old kernel, it just added a
> new one and made that the default.  Using grub boot menu, you should be
> able to boot your old kernel with the working nvidia driver.  This would
> allow you to get back to a working X11 configuration and debug the
> problem from a familiar environment.

Another good suggestion for a solution. Except that I'd have to know
how to edit the grub boot menu from the command line. 

How do you guys ever learn all this stuff?