Boot to text mode

[Terry Polzin]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 11:20, Don wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I remember seeing this in the archives but can't find it.
>
> I installed Fedora Core 3 to boot to graphics mode by default but it can't
> understand my graphics card and so hangs on boot.  How do I use the boot
> loader to boot into text mode?
>
Either directly edit the kernel line in grub at boot with the numeral 3 (for 
run level 3)  OR edit the same line with the word single and change the 
default in /etc/inittab from 5 to 3.