[GLLUG] Booting to console

[Bruce Smith]

Or, if you can't edit the inittab file (because X is so screwed up you
can't get to an editor), at the grub menu, type "e", go down to the
kernel line, press "e" again, and add a " 3" to the end of the line to
boot into runlevel 3 for that time only.

> Edit /etc/inittab
> 
> Change the line
> id:5:initdefault:
> to
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> Then reboot.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:36, Thomas Alan Hearn wrote:
> > I know this should be a fairly simple thing but my X configuration is messed 
> > up with a new display adapter and I need to get RH 9 to boot to the console 
> > instead of starting x right away (it displays jumble).  Do i need to enter a 
> > command at GRUG or somewhere else?  Thanks in advance!