Disabling graphical boot
Nejaa Halcyon
nejaa at racc2000.com
Sun Nov 30 22:11:31 UTC 2003
That did the trick. thanks for all the advice, everyone.
-Nejaa
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 13:50, Graydon wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:14:25PM -0500, WA9ALS - John scripsit:
> > > rpm -e rhgb
> > > or just remove the 'rhgb' from your bootloader.
> >
> > Where is that configuration kept, ie if I wanted to change it manually?
>
> It's part of the options line passed to grub in /boot/grub/grub.conf --
>
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img ^^^^
>
>
> If you want to boot to the console, removing rhgb won't accomplish
> that; you'll still wind up booting to X.
>
> To boot to the console, you want to boot in text mode, which means editing
> /etc/inittab
>
> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> # 1 - Single user mode
> # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
> # 3 - Full multiuser mode
> # 4 - unused
> # 5 - X11
> # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> id:3:initdefault:
> ^
> If you're booting to X, that 3 will be a five; change it to 3 and you should
> boot to the console, whether or not rhgb is on the grub options line.
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