change runlevel at boot time not working

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, 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.

that would be **append** 3 to the end of that line, not replace the 
entire line.  might that be what's happening here?

rday