Using Safe Mode
When a driver decides to do bad things that cause a system to crash or behave erratically, you can try booting with a set of critical system drivers and nothing else. This is called Safe Mode. There are various flavors of Safe Mode. Access them by pressing F8 at the boot menu. Here is a list of the options in this menu:
Safe Mode. This mode loads a bare set of peripheral drivers, 16-color VGA video, SCSI and IDE interfaces for mass storage, floppy interface, and a few system services. Safe Mode does not load network services. When you select this option, an environment variable called SAFEBOOT_OPTION=MINIMAL is set.
Safe Mode with Networking. This option loads the same drivers as standard Safe Mode with the addition of network ...
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