firstboot and runlevel (was (no subject)

[Rick Stevens]

Marius Andreiana wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 07:02, Greg Ennis wrote:
> 
>>Everyone,
>>
>>I am having a little trouble getting my first Fedora system to boot.  I
>>think I am having trouble with the 'first time boot' script on the gui
>>interface.  Is there a way to change the run level to 3 by changing the boot
>>statements in grub in order to bypass the first time boot script on the gui
>>interface?
> 
> chkconfig --level 12345 firstboot off
> 
> edit /etc/inittab to change runlevel to 3
> 
> Is there a way to tell at boot prompt which runlevel to start?

The easiest is to do append " single" to the end of the boot command
to come up in single user mode.  Edit /etc/inittab and exit.  Voila!
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