[GLLUG] Booting to console

Matt Graham danceswithcrows at usa.net
Mon Sep 22 14:14:58 EDT 2003


On Monday 22 September 2003 12:46, after a long battle with technology, 
Scott Harrison wrote:

Please don't top-post.  Message rearranged:

> 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? 

> Edit /etc/inittab
>
> Change the line
> id:5:initdefault:
> to
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> Then reboot.

Then you have to change inittab back, and if you forget to do that, you 
get annoyed.  And there's no need to reboot, just "init 3" as root to 
shut down X, then "init 5" once X is configured right.  If you want to 
boot to a different-than-usual runlevel from GRUB, you'd edit the 
command line ("e" from the GRUB menu) and put the number/string 
corresponding to that runlevel at the end, like so:

kernel=/boot/vmlinuz initrd=something hdc=ide-scsi vga=775 3

...boots in runlevel 3.

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