Blank screen after boot - After update.

Hello!
I have the following problem with my arch dist:
I recently - and after several weeks without touching it - updated my arch but, after rebooting, the laptop screen went blank just after booting up. Using the fallback boot resulted in the same ... well.. result. This is as much as i can describe since i don´t know how to access a comand line in this context, in order to test/check what´s going on. Anyone can help me?
Thanks

Assuming you are using grub, you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst when grub is loading, in order to force it to not boot into X. On boot, select your normal arch linux entry from to boot list (don't press enter) and type e to edit the menu.lst Press e again on the kernel line and append this number:
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 resume=/dev/sda5 ro 1
Press enter and then you boot it by pressing b. It is the number at the end that defines the run level, in this case 1 (single user). This will allow you to boot into console as root.
Edit: I meant run level 1 (single user)
Last edited by roygbiv (2011-06-24 20:08:01)

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