4.6. Help!!! My system is totally unusable! What do I do?

You can reboot into a non-LIDS enhanced kernel, or boot into your LIDS enhanced kernel with LIDS disabled to try and patch things up. To boot with LIDS disabled, specify lids=0 at the lilo prompt. For example, if your LIDS enhanced kernel is called lids-kernel you would enter the following at the lilo prompt:

lilo: lids-kernel lids=0

That's the easy part. The difficult part is getting your LIDS enabled system to shutdown. You may not be able to shutdown successfully depending on your LIDS configuration.

WARNING: Rebooting your LIDS enabled system when it is not properly configured can cause file system corruption and/or loss of data!!