[GLLUG] Booting to console

Daniel Bennett daniel.bennett at jnli.com
Mon Sep 22 14:05:37 EDT 2003


Boot into single user mode using "s" at the boot command 
line. 

Enter your root password.

remount / as rw, "mount / -o remount,rw"

Modify /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to 3.

Reboot or run "telinit 3".



On Monday 22 September 2003 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!
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
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