Messed with run levels, now system wont start.

[Torsten.]

Still on serial port with hyperterminal?

So it works until you end in single user mode.

Go to "file"->"properties"->"settings"

and change emulation from "auto detect" to "vt100".

[Eric Bakken]

yeas, I changed the flow control to none, and it worked, and i did all that you said and changed the inittab back to how it was before, and I think you have solved all my problems... one thing though, what did the export term=vt100 do exactly?

[Torsten.]

In very simple words:

the vi editor needs to know how may rows and columns are on the terminal. By setting the emulation type to vt100 (in hyperterminal) and export the variable "TERM" with the value "vt100", your computer knows about how many rows and columns are there.

[Eric Bakken]

ok, thank you