[GLLUG] Re: Booting into text mode

[Reza Beha]

Most of the time, runlevel 5 goes without a hitch. 
Occasionally, the video is unreadable.  At those times
it will be quicker to drop to level 3 and retry level
5 than it will be to reboot, possibly multiple times
until the video problem corrects itself.

Please let me know if you can think of a better
solution!  Creativity is our friend.

--- Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Reza Beha <reza_beha@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanks, everyone, for all the help!
> > 
> > I tried Ctrl-Alt-F1 and it does the trick.  From
> > there, my current plan is to drop to runlevel 3 to
> > kill any X processes, then go back into runlevel 5
> > (using the "telinit" command).  I prefer using X
> > because it offers a higher-resolution shell window
> > than what I get in text-only mode, and it looks
> cool
> > to boot (no pun intended).
> 
> So your system boots in runlevel 5, you switch it to
> runlevel 3,
> then you switch it back to runlevel 5?  Net effect
> being: zero.
> What's the point?
> -- 
> "...dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en
> temps un amiral
>  pour encourager les autres."
> --Voltaire, _Candide_


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