change runlevel at boot time not working
Michael Schwendt
fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Mon Jul 26 22:19:29 UTC 2004
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:09:41 -0500, Whil Hentzen wrote:
> I have X (GNOME and KDE) installed, but I'd like to boot to the command prompt
> directly, without having to go to the GUI and then get out.
>
> The RH9 manual (the best doc I can find) says to go to the Graphical GRUB boot
> loader screen, type e to edit it, arrow down to the kernel line, type e to
> edit it, at the prompt, type the number of the runlevel (e.g. 3), press Enter
> to get back to the GRUB screen, type b to boot.
>
> When I do so, I get a kernel panic. The last line on the screen suggests to
> use 'init= option". I try that instead of just '3'. Same kernel panic.
>
> I don't want to edit inittab. I just want to choose which runlevel to get into
> during booting. I'm sure it's trivial and in the manual somewhere... but my
> eyes haven't found it yet.
Add a space character before the 3.
(Or press 'a' instead of 'e' in GRUB menu.)
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