How to boot without X Windows?
Dhananjoy Chowdhury
dhananjoy at nucleussoftware.com
Thu Apr 22 06:58:55 UTC 2004
What Elvio has suggested is cool but i would like to add to get back
your Xwindows...
as u boot your system in init 3 mode ...
run the command "redhat-config-xfree86" this will take a default
display card and may run ur Xwindows...
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 11:45, Elvio Caruana wrote:
> Charles,
>
> When X starts and fails, press CRTL+ALT+F1 to go to console mode.
> Log in as root, then edit /etc/inittab with your favourite editor.
>
> Find the line
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> and change it to
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
>
> and reboot.
>
>
> You probably didn't know that you can go to a console by CTL+ALT+F[1-6]
> .. and that will solve you many problems.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 06:11, Charles Landau wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Fedora Core 1 on an off-brand PC. (It's a
> > "Great Quality PC" from Fry's Electronics.) Apparently the
> > installation process mis-identifies my video hardware, because as
> > soon as it tries to start X Windows, the screen goes blank (or, if I
> > connect a more intelligent monitor, it says "Input signal out of
> > range").
> >
> > By the way, the video hardware is on the motherboard, which is an
> > Elitegroup L7VMM3. The documentation provided is sketchy, but the
> > computer came with Lindows 4.5 installed; it was using a "savage"
> > video driver for X Windows and works fine.
> >
> > I'm thinking that if I could boot Fedora without having it start X
> > Windows, I could run enough to explore the X configuration and
> > experiment with changing it to try to get it to work with my
> > hardware. I'm hoping there's a generic video driver that will work
> > OK. (I don't care about the video hardware's fancy 2D and 3D
> > graphics.) So how do I keep X Windows from starting? I can *install*
> > in text mode, but I don't know how to stay in text mode when booting.
dhananjoy chowdhury
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