change runlevel at boot time not working
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Tue Jul 27 14:27:02 UTC 2004
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 05:09:41PM -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.
>
> --
I am not sure what you are doing wrong but I would try the a option
which will do what you want to do more quickly and directly.
The kernel panic I suspect from the fact that when you are editing the line
you are screwing up the root=LABEL=/ entry on the line so the root
option does not match the entry for the root partition in the fstab
file.
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Aaron Konstam
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